Ramkumar Ramanathan battled past wild card entrant Chien-Hsun Lo of Chinese Taipei 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of the $162,480 Challenger on Thursday.
In the quarterfinals, Ramkumar will play Kwon Soonwoo of Korea who knocked out the top-seed Lloyd Harris of South Africa 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-3.
In the ATP event in Marrakech, Leander Paes and Benoit Paire knocked out fourth seeds Oliver Marach and Philipp Oswald of Austria 12-10 in the super tie-break to make the semifinals.
In the tour event in Houston, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Purav Raja set up a quarterfinal against the top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, with a 10-8 victory in the super tie-break over Nicholas Monroe and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela.
In the $25,000 ITF men’s Futures in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, Sidharth Rawat bounced back to outsmart Grigoriy Lomakin of Kazakhstan 0-6, 6-2, 6-2. In the quarterfinals, Sidharth will meet the Russian top seed Roman Safiullin.
The results:
€586,140 ATP, Marrakech, Morocco: Doubles (quarterfinals): Benoit Paire (Fra) & Leander Paes bt Oliver Marach & Philipp Oswald (Aut) 7-5, 3-6, 12-10; Pre-quarterfinals: Dominic Inglot (GBR) & Rohan Bopanna bt Roman Jebavy (Cze) & Andres Molteni (Arg) 0-6, 6-3, [10-8].
$652,245 ATP, Houston, US: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Purav Raja bt Nicholas Monroe (US) & Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (Mex) 6-3, 6-7(5), [10-8].
$162,480 Challenger, Chinese Taipei: Pre-quarterfinals: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Chien-Hsun Lo (Tpe) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Second round: Ramkumar bt Maverick Banes (Aus) 6-3, 6-2.
€46,600 Challenger, Barletta, Italy: Second round: Filippo Balldi (Ita) bt Sumit Nagal 6-3, 6-4.
$25,000 ITF women, Hong Kong: Doubles (quarterfinals): Olivia Tjandramulia (Aus) & Rutuja Bhosale bt Shuyue Ma &YeXin Ma (Chn) 7-5, 6-4.
$25,000 ITF women, Osaka, Japan: Pre-quarterfinals: Mayo Hibi (Jpn) bt Y. Pranjala 6-1, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF men, Shymkent, Kazakhstan: Pre-quarterfinals: Sidharth Rawat bt Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) 0-6, 6-2, 6-2; First round: Sidharth bt Aliaksandr Liaonenka (Blr) 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sagadat Ayap (Kaz) & George Tsivadze (Geo) bt Sidharth Rawat & Manish Sureshkumar 6-2, 7-5.
$25,000 ITF men, Abuja, Nigeria: Pre-quarterfinals: Arjun Kadhe bt Guy Orly Iradukunda (Bdi) 6-2, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Benjamin Lock & Courtney John Lock (Zim) bt Kunal Anand & Suraj Prabodh 7-6(9), 6-3.
$15,000 ITF men, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt: First round: Luka Pavlovic (Fra) bt S.D. Prajwal Dev 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Vasisht Cheruku & Prajwal Dev bt Michal Dembek & Yann Wojcik (Pol) 6-1, 6-3.
