Divij Sharan and Artem Sitak of New Zealand outplayed wild card entrants Luke Bambridge of Britain and Ben Mclachlan of Japan 6-2, 6-3 in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $2,046,340 ATP tennis here on Tuesday.
In the quarterfinals, they will play the second seeds from France, Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Nicolas Mahut.
In the men’s ITF Futures in Turkey, Adil Kalyanpur reached the second round with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 victory over Alexander Ovcharov of Russia.
In the ITF women’s event in Pretoria, South Africa, Snehal Mane, Zeel Desai and Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy made the pre-quarterfinals.
The results: $2,046,340 ATP-500, Tokyo: Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Artem Sitak (Nzl) & Divij sharan bt Luke Bambridge (GBR) & Ben Mclachlan (Jpn) 6-2, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF men, Tay Ninh, Vietnam: Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Sidharth Rawat & Manish Sureshkumar bt Dac Tien Nguyen & Ha Minh Duc Vu (Vie) 6-4, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Nanchang, China: Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Anirudh Chandrasekar & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Bingyu Yu & Weiqiang Zheng (Chn) 6-2, 6-1; Li-Wei Tan (Tpe) & Haitong Xia (Chn) bt Vasisht Cheruku & P.C. Vignesh 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Santa Tecla, El Salvador: Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Matt Mcbride & Aron Pierce (US) bt Gianfranco Panta (Per) 4-6, 6-3, [10-2].
$15,000 ITF men, Antalya, Turkey: Singles: First round: Adil Kalyanpur bt Alexander Ovcharov (Rus) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF women, Sharm El Sheikh: Singles: First round: Aaliya Ebrahim bt Urszula Nebelska (Pol) 6-7(1), 6-3, 7-5.
Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Diana Maria Mihail (Rou) & Theiviya Selvarajoo (Mas) bt Sathwika Sama & Saumya Vig 7-6(4), 6-4; Viktoria Kalinina & Alexandra Mironova (Rus) bt Yara Abed (Isr) & Aalyka Ebrahim 6-2, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF women, Pretoria: Singles: First round: Snehal Mane bt Georgia Hosking (RSA) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1; Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy bt Sarah Pang (Sgp) 6-0, 6-0; Zeel Desai bt Adesuwa Osabuohien (US) 6-0, 6-0.
Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Maria Vittoria Viviani (Ita) & Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Adi Gavish (Isr) & Vivian Mayumi Toma (Bra) 6-1, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF women, Tabarka, Tunisia: Singles: First round: Isabella Haverlag (Ned) bt Jennifer Luikham 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.