Prajnesh Gunneswaran outclassed Yecong He 6-1, 6-0 in the second round of the $25,000 Futures tournament here on Wednesday, and joined Karunuday Singh in the quarterfinals.
The results: €43,000 Challenger, Recanti, Italy: First round: Marin Draganja & Tomislav Draganja (Cro) bt Aldin Setkic (Bih) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 2-6, [11-9].
$25,000 Futures, Shenzhen: Second round: Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Yecong He (Chn) 6-1, 6-0; Karunuday Singh bt Xin Gao (Chn) 6-3, 6-2. Doubles quarterfinals: Sergey Betov & Dzmitry Zhyrmong (Blr) bt Aoran Wang (Chn) & Karunuday 6-1, 6-7(6), [10-8].
$15,000 Futures, Colombo: Second round: Sumit Nagal bt Mikhail Korovin (Rus) 6-1, 1-0 retired; Sidharth Rawat bt Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-3, 6-1; Yurii Dzhavakian (Ukr) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 7-5, 6-3; V.M. Ranjeet bt Alexander Zhurbin (Rus) 7-6(5), 6-2; Peter Goldsteiner (Aut) bt Manish Sureshkumar 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-4. Doubles quarterfinals: Chandril Sood & Lakshit Sood bt Isa Mammetgulyyev (Tkm) & Ranjeet 6-2 retired; Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Yasitha de Silva & Nishangan Nadaraja (Sri) 6-3, 6-4; Hady Habib (USA) & Ankit Chopra w/o Philip Bachmaier & Peter Goldsteiner (Aut).
$15,000 ITF women, Anning, China: Doubles quarterfinals: Shou Na Mu & Mi Zhuoma You (Chn) bt Sowjanya Bavisetti & Rishika Sunkara 3-4 retired.
$15,000 ITF women, Sharm El Sheikh: First round: Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy & Y. Pranjala bt Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (Swe) & Ekaterina Yashina (Rus) 6-3, 6-3; Angelina Zhuravleva (Rus) & Kanika Vaidya bt Adele Diana Biba & Agnes Omella Biba (Cmr) 6-0, 6-0; Linda Prenkovic (Ger) & Tanisha Rohira w/o Linnea Malmqvist & Brenda Njuki (Swe) .
