Mukund hit some punishing groundstrokes to break Hiroki early in the first set to gain the initiative, and then never looked back.
Seventh seed Prajnesh Gunneswaran kept his cool to break Joshua Milton of Great Britain once in the first set and twice in the second to win 6-4, 6-3.
Second round qualifying results: Mukund Sasikumar bt Hiroki Kondo (JPN) 6-4, 6-4; Marek Semjan (SVK) bt Vijay Sundar N. Prashanth 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Victor Baluda (RUS) bt Ranjit Virali-Murugesan 6-3, 7-6(2); Michael Venus (NZL) bt Vijayant Malik 6-3, 7-5; Sanam Singh bt Artem Sitak (NZL) 7-6(2), 6-2; Richard Becker (GER) bt Rahul Robinson Manoah 6-1, 7-6(4); Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Joshua Milton (GBR) 6-4, 6-3; Karunuday Singh bt Tristan Weissborn (AUT) 6-1, 6-7(2), 6-4.
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