Prajnesh Gunneswaran was unable to set up a dream date with Roger Federer as he was beaten 7-6(4), 6-3 by Giudo Pella of Argentina in the pre-quarterfinals of the €729,340 Mercedes Cup ATP tournament on Thursday.
Ramkumar Ramanathan beat Germany’s Tobias Kamke 7-6(1), 6-3 to set up a quarterfinal against Marcel Granollers of Spain in the Nottingham Challenger.
Other results:
€729,340 Mercedes Cup ATP, Stuttgart: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Philipp Petschner & Tim Puetz (Ger) bt Sriram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan 6-2, 3-6, [10-7].
€127,000 Challenger men, Nottingham: Pre-quarterfinals: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Tobias Kamke (Ger) 7-6(1), 6-3. Doubles (quarterfinals): Austin Krajicek (USA) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (Esp) & Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) 7-5, 6-4.
$100,000 ITF women, Manchester: Doubles (quarterfinals): Harriet Dart & Katy Dunne (GBR) bt Ingrid Neel (USA) & Ankita Raina 6-2, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF men, Colombo: Quarterfinals: Mohit Mayur bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 6-0; Manish Sureshkumar bt Pruchya Isaro (Tha) 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles (semifinals): Diego Matos & Thales Turini (Bra) bt Kunal Anand & Kaza Vinayak Sharma 7-6(4), 7-6(3).
$15,000 ITF men, Harare, Zimbabwe: Quarterfinals: Benjamin Lock (Zim) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-4, 6-4; Mehuli Don Ayanda Sibanda (Zim) bt Dhruv Sunish 6-2, 7-5. Doubles (semifinals): Benjamin Lock & Courtney John Lock (Zim) bt Tarun Anirudh & Niki Poonacha 6-1, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF women, Obidos, Portugal: Pre-quarterfinals: Berfu Cengiz (Tur) bt Mahak Jain 6-4, 7-5. Doubles (semifinals): Giulia Gatto-Monticone & Giorgia Marchetti (Ita) bt Francisca Jorge (Por) & Snehadevi Reddy 6-4, 6-2.
