Paes & Purav in semifinals

Top seeds Leander Paes and Purav Raja powered into the doubles semifinals of the $75,000 Challenger tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Nathaniel Lammons and Alex Lawson of the US.

The results:

$75,000 Challenger men, Champaign, US: Doubles (quarterfinals): Leander Paes & Purav Raja bt Nathaniel Lammons & Alex Lawson (US) 6-3, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF men, Meshref, Kuwait: Doubles (semifinals): Robert Galloway (US) & Benjamin Lock (Zim) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & P.C. Vignesh 6-3, 0-6, [10-6].

$15,000 ITF men, Thu Dau Mot City, Vietnam: Quarterfinals: Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Jakub Paul (Sui) 6-3, 6-4. Doubles (semifinals): Miliaan Niesten (Ned) & Francesco Vilardo (Ita) bt Vasisht Cheruku & Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-0, 6-2.