The unseeded Indian will clash with Chris Kwon in the semi-finals of the ITF Men's Futures tournament.
Delhi-lad Yuki Bhambri set up a second-round clash with top seed Aqeel Khan of Pakistan after an easy first-round victory at the ITF tournament in Delhi.
The third seeded Pakistani upset the former India Davis Cupper and winner of the second leg in the ITF Satellite Masters tennis tournament.
Top seed Aqeel Khan beat second seed Vinod Sridhar in the final to become the first foreigner to win India's hardcourt tennis title.
The freezing cold made the conditions challenging for the players.
India has never beaten Sweden in five attempts in the Davis Cup.
'They should come to Pakistan. It's not fair that they do not come to Pakistan. The Indian team is much better than us. We have a beautiful hotel just across the stadium. If Indians come it will send a good message that we are good neighbours.'
It's a historical tie, we will benefit from India team's visit: Pakistan tennis fraternity
India's top two singles players Sumit Nagal and Sasi Kumar Mukund have conveyed to the national tennis federation that they won't travel to Pakistan for the next Davis Cup tie.
Indian Davis Cup team capped its historic visit to Pakistan after 60 years by sealing its place in World Group I as it blanked Pakistan 4-0 with Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni recording a comfortable victory and Niki Poonacha making a winning debut, in Islamabad on Sunday.
A bomb disposal squad will sanitise the Islamabad Sports Complex every morning, and two escort vehicles will shadow the Indian Davis Cup team during its travel as part of multi-layer security arrangement, which is usually accorded to the Head of State, to ensure the visiting tennis players' safety and security.
The PTF chief said there was a deadline for the AITA to send final arrival confirmation and if they didn't travel to Pakistan the International Tennis Federation (ITF) would consider the Davis Cup tie as forfeited, awarding full points to the hosts.
India blunted Pakistan's challenge on the opening day to take a 2-0 lead in the Davis Cup World Group I play-off tie with Ramkumar Ramanathan and N Sriram Balaji rising to the occasion in the high-pressure contest, in Islamabad on Saturday.
Counter-puncher Sumit Nagal blunted the challenge of big-serving Beibit Zhukayev with his perseverance while Ankita Raina outgunned Adithya P Karunaratne without fuss as the two Indians inched closer to singles medals.
Davis Cup: Strong Indian team is firm favourite against Pakistan in historic clash
'To win a medal, the players will have to play a couple of tough rounds. The draws are fine, and balanced and give us the opportunity to go deep.'
Dismissing Pakistan's review appeal, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced Kazakhstan's capital Nur-Sultan as the neutral venue for the tie.
India, with players of the caliber of Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan and veteran Leander Paes, were already expected to win easy but pulling out of Pakistan top players Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Aqeel Khan has made it a no-contest.
Vivek Shokeen and Ashutosh Singh won the doubles tie to help India clinch the first leg of the tennis series against Pakistan.
In a match that sowed the seeds of dissention in the Indian team, Pakistan's Aqeel Khan thinks he would have always liked to play the fifth rubber against Leander Paes in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania relegation play-off tie in Mumbai in April 2006.
Aisam Qureshi beat Ashutosh Singh 6-3, 6-3 to enable Pakistan beat India 2-1 in the second leg of the tennis series in Islamabad.
After conceding the first leg, Pakistan hit back strongly to go 1-0 up against India in the bilateral tennis series.
Vivek Shokeen defeated Aqeel Khan to give India a 1-0 lead in the second edition of the India-Pakistan tennis series.
Pakistan tennis mulls appeal against shifting Davis Cup tie; PTF president says 'India has only politicised a sports event'.
Top seed Aqeel Khan and Aditya Madkekar scored easy semi-final victories at the US $10,000 ITF men's tournament in Jassowal, Ludhiana.
In the semi-finals of the ITF tournament, unseeded Ashutosh beat Chinese Davis Cupper Yu Jr Wang, while Sun accounted for top seed Aqeel Khan of Pakistan.
The top seeded Indian pair beat Pakistan's Aisam Qureshi and Aqeel Khan in the men's doubles quarter-finals at the Asian Games.
Seeking to allay fears on Indian team's security during the Davis Cup tie, Pakistan Tennis Federation president Salim Saifullah Khan assured that the contest will be held in safe and secure environment, promising "impressive hospitality" to the visitors.
Pakistan took an unbeatable 2-0 lead over India in the second tennis Test in Lahore.
Divij Sharan Sharan beat Aqeel Khan 7-5, 6-4 to win the fourth leg of the Satellite tournament in New Delhi.
No Indian Davis Cup squad has travelled to Pakistan since March 1964 and in that tie, held in Lahore, India had won 4-0.
'We did not want India to either default or forfeit this tie'
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