Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Ramkumar Ramanathan reached the singles quarterfinals in the $162,480 Challenger tennis tournament on Thursday.
Defending champion and second seed Prajnesh beat Adam Pavlasek of the Czech Republic 7-5, 6-3 to set up a quarterfinal against Nikola Milojevic of Serbia.
Fifth seed Ramkumar had to battle Zhezhen Zhang in three sets to set up a quarterfinal against third seed Kamil Majchrzak of Poland.
The results: $162,480 Challenger, Anning, China: Second round: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Zhizhen Zhang (Chn) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Adam Pavlasek (Cze) 7-5, 6-3.
Doubles: Quarterfinals: Max Purcell & Luke Saville (Aus) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran & Saketh Myneni 6-1, 6-1.
$108,320 Challenger, Sarasota, USA: Doubles: First round: Boris Ariass (Bol) & Sekou Bangoura (USA) bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Purav Raja 5-7, 7-5, [10-5].
$25,000 ITF men, Shymkent, Kazakhstan: Doubles: Quarterfinals: Sidharth Rawat & Manish Sureshkumar bt Sergey Fomin (Uzb) & Dostanbekk Tashbulatov (Kaz) 6-4, 6-1.
$25,000 ITF men, Abuja, Nigeria: Second round: Tom Jomby (Fra) bt Kunal Anand 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt: Second round: Mathiieu Perchicot (Fra) bt V.M. Ranjeet 6-0, 6-3; First round: Mathieu Perchigot (Fra) bt P.C. Vignesh 6-1, 6-3; Ranjeet bt Daniil Sokolov (Rus) 6-2, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey: First round: Eliessa Vanlangendonck (Bel) bt Jennifer Luikham 3-6, 6-4, 6-0.
Doubles: Quarterfinals: Ramu Ueda (Jpn) & Jennifer Luikham bt Ena Kajevic (Cro) & Jantje Tilbuerger (Ger) 4-6, 6-1, [10-5] .
