India’s Sasi Kumar Mukund’s superb run came to an end as he was beaten in the quarterfinals by Cem Ilkel of Turkey 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the $75,000 Challenger here on Thursday.
Other results: $75,000 Challenger men, Karshi, Uzbekistan: Pre-quarterfinals: Sasi Kumar bt Nikola Milojevic (Srb) 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Doubles (quarterfinals): Altug Celikbilek & Cem Ilkel (Tur) bt Sriram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 7-6(7).
$15,000 ITF, Cairo, Egypt: Doubles (quarterfinals): Tarun Anirudh & P.C. Vignesh bt Alexander Igoshin & Robert Ziganshin (Rus) 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Kampala, Uganda: Pre-quarterfinals: Ivan Nedelko (Rus) bt Kunal Anand 6-4, 6-3; S.D. Prajwal Dev bt Christoffer Solberg (Swe) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; V.M. Ranjeet bt Vasisht Cheruku 6-4, 7-6(6); Darko Bojanovic (BIH) bt Jayesh Pungliya 6-4, 6-7(4), 7-5; Ajeet Rai (NZ) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.
$60,000 ITF women, Luan, China: Pre-quarterfinals: Karman Kaur Thandi bt Yuxuan Zhang (Chn) 6-4, 5-7, 6-1; Ankita Raina bt Hanyu Guo (Chn) 6-4, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF women, Monzon, Spain: Pre-quarterfinals: Y. Pranjala bt Anastasia Kulikova (Rus) 6-3, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt: Pre-quarterfinals: Riya Bhatia bt Muskan Gupta 6-2, 6-1; Dominique Karregat (Ned) bt Snehal Mane 6-1, 7-5.
