new delhi former commonwealth games goldmedallist manoj kumar was among the three indian boxers who won their opening bouts on another bittersweet day for the country at the 68th strandja memorial tournament in sofia bulgariamanoj who got a firstround bye defeated local favourite robert chamasanyan in his maiden international bout since jumping weight divisions from light welterweight 64kg to welterweight 69kg he will face mauritian merven clair in the quarterfinalsalso advancing to the next round were amit phangal 49kg and thomas meitei mayenbam 64kgwhile amit defeated armenias gaspar babakhanyan thomas got the better of polands lukasz neimczykamit will be up against kazakh erzhan zhomart in the quarterfinals while thomas who did not get a bye in the first round will fight it out with bulgarian airin ismetov for a quarterfinal spothowever it was curtains for satish kumar 91kg and manish panwar 81kgsatish went down to kazakhstans kamshybek konkabayev manish on the other hand was beaten by italian federico antonaci