Second seeded Sidharth Rawat made short work of qualifier Anvit Bendre, winning 6-3, 6-4 in the second round of the MCC-S.R. Subramaniam ITF Futures tournament at the Madras Cricket Club.
Arjun Kadhe came back from a set down to oust Kelsey Stevenson. After the Canadian had taken a tight first set in a tie-break, he seemed to fade away even as Kadhe came back with explosive energy, to romp through the next two sets conceding only two games.
Sumit Nagal stroked fluently on both flanks to beat Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-2, 6-0 and make the quarters.
The results: Second round: Sumit Nagal bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-2, 6-0; Jayesh Pungliya bt Seong-Gook Oh (Kor) 7-5, 7-6(4); Arjun Kadhe bt Kelsey Stevenson (Can) 6-7(4), 6-1, 6-1; Cameron Silverman (USA) bt Aryan Goveas 6-2, 7-5; Tae-Woo Lee (Kor) bt Cing-Yang Meng (Tpe) 6-3, 6-2; Colin Van Beem (Ned) bt Ju-Hae Moon (Kor) 6-1, 6-1; Haadin Bava bt Vijayant Malik 6-3, 6-3; Sidharth Rawat bt Anvit Bendre 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles quarterfinals: Vladimir Polyakov (Rus) & Colin Van Beem (Ned) bt Yuri Dzhavakian (Ukr) & Jessy Kalambay (Sui) 6-2, 6-4; Tae-Woo Lee (Kor) & Ju-Hae Moon (Kor) bt Anvit Bendre & Arjun Kadhe 7-6(2), 6-3; Anirudh Chandrasekar & P. Vignesh bt Ankit Chopra & Carlos Jose Cuevas (Chi) 6-4, 6-2; J. Mohit Mayur & Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Seong-Gook Oh (Kor) & Jae Won Yun (Kor) 6-4, 4-6, [10-6] .
