Prakash Amritraj advanced to the doubles quarter-finals of the Italy ATP Challenger event along with his partner but curtains were drawn on the campaign of Harsh Mankad in Bergamo in Italy.
Fifth seed Karl Beck of Slovakia capped a wonderful week scoring a close three set win over seventh seed Gilles Muller of Luxemburg to lift the $1,25,000 Tashkent Challenger, an ATP Challenger series event being played at the Olympic tennis Stadium on Sunday.
Prakash Amritraj carved out an easy 6-2, 6-3 win over local favourite Santiago Gonzalez to advance to the quarter-finals of the US $35,000 ATP Challenger in Mexico City. The eighth seeded Indian will now face off against Belgian qualifier Dick Norman, who shocked fourth seed Argentine Horacio Zeballos 7-6 (4), 6-7(15), 6-3 in his second round match.
Prakash Amritraj crashed out of the Aegon Pro series after suffering defeats in both singles and doubles events at the euro 30,000 grass court ATP Challenger event in Manchester
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi clinched their third ATP Challenger doubles title of the season after defeating Jarkko Nieminen and Henri Kontinen 6-2, 7-6 in the final of the Helsinki event in Finland.
Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna is in line for his second ATP Challenger doubles title this season after making the final of the Aachen event in Germany along with his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.
In Chennai, on Friday, the second seeded Indian got the better of Korea's Duckhee Lee, the third seed, 7-5, 6-2 in 85 minutes, while Thompson beat unseeded Spaniard Pedro Martinez 6-1, 7-6.
Prakash Amritraj stunned fifth seed and local favourite Kyu Tae IM to advance to the singles second round of the ATP Challenger event in Chuncheon, Korea but his campaign in the doubles was cut short in the opening round itself.
Somdev Devvarman continued his march towards the top-100 mark as he bettered his career-best ranking by gaining five places to reach 116th in the latest ATP list.
Somdev Devverman rallied to record a brilliant victory over Pavol Cervenak and storm into the quarter-finals of the $125,000 ATP Challenger event in Seoul, Korea, on Wednesday. However, Prakash Amritraj's campaign ended with a loss in the second round.
Prakash Amritraj crashed out of the ATP Challenger event in Calabasas, US after a tame 2-6, 2-6 defeat against American Michael Yani in the quarter-finals.
Somdev Devvarman fought an intense battle against Australian qualifier Samuel Groth but eventually lost 6-7(4), 7-6(10), 4-6 in the first round of the Nottingham Challenger. Rohan Bopanna, who entered the main draw via the qualifying event, beat Russian Alexandre Kudryavtsev 2-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Prakash Amritraj and his American partner Alex Kuznetsov scripted a come-from-behind win to advance to the doubles quarter-finals in the US $50,000 ATP Challenger in Calabasas, United States. The fourth seeded Indo-US pair defeated the local duo of Rylan Rizza and Kaes Van't Hof 6-7(1), 6-2, 10-8 in the first round on Monday night.
The Indian challenge at the $125,000 Tashkent ATP Challenger, being played at the Olympic Tennis Stadium, ended on Thursday when second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Hsun Yen Lu went down to the local pair of Denis Istomin and Murad Inoyatov in the semi-finals. The Uzbek pair of Istomin and Inoyatov beat the Indo-Taipei 3-6, 6-1, 10-5 in a well-contested semi-final.
India challenge ended in the singles event of the Tashkent ATP Challenger with the straight set defeat of Somdev Devvarman even as Rohan Bopanna advanced to the doubles semi-finals along with partner Yen Hsun Lu.
Prakash Amritraj and Harsh Mankad are one step away from winning ATP challenger Tour's doubles titles, having reached the final of different events along with their respective partners.
Somdev Devvarman went down fighting against Lester Cook of the US in the second round of the $50,000 ATP Challenger event in Los Angeles. Somdev, who is India's top-ranked men's singles player, lost 6-7 (5) 5-7 against the American wild card on Wednesday.
A fit-again Rohan Bopanna and partner Frank Moser entered the second round of the ATP Challenger event in Italy with a straight-sets win over the wild card pair of Carlos Berlocq and Nicolas Todero. The top seeded Indo-German pair scored a 6-3, 6-4 win over the Argentine combination in the first round of the euro 42,500 clay-court event.
Rohan Bopanna's campaign in the ATP Challenger series tournament in Tashkent ended with a quarter-final defeat in the doubles, at the US $125,000 event, at the Olympic Tennis School. Bopanna and his partner Purav Raja put up a brave fight before losing 6-7(4) 6-3 to the top seeded pair of Oliver Marach of Austria and Lukasz Kubot of Poland.
Somdev Devvarman made a shocking first round exit from the ATP Challenger tennis event in Binghamton following a straight sets defeat at the hands of Sergei Bubka even as Prakash Amritraj made a brilliant comeback to advance to the next level. In the doubles event, fourth seeds Harsh Mankad and his American partner David Martin advanced to the quarter-finals after a hard-earned win over wild card pair of Laurynas Grigelis and Andrea Stoppini.
Somdev Devvarman's brilliant run at the USD 75,000 ATP Challenger event was halted by Australian Chris Guccione, who outplayed the Indian in the straight sets.
Sounding warning bells for South Africa ahead of the upcoming Davis Cup tie, Somdev Devvarman beat Izak Van der Merwe in straight sets to storm into the semi-finals of the US $75,000 ATP Challenger event in Aptos. The Indian beat the South African Davis Cupper 6-4, 6-2 in the quarter-final of the hard court event on Friday.
Somdev Devvarman made a shock first round exit from the US $50,000 ATP Challenger series in Carson, United States, in both singles and doubles. Somdev, seeded eighth, lost his opening singles match 1-6, 4-6 to unseeded American Scoville Jenkins. In the doubles event, Somdev and Ashutosh Singh went down fighting to the American pair of Brendan Levine Jesse 3-6, 5-7.
Prakash Amritraj and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya surrendered to the resilience and guile of their Japanese opponents to crash out of the singles event of the $ 50,000 ATP Challenger tournament in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Prakash Amritraj stunned seventh seed Chris Guccione in a tight second round match to advance to the quarter-finals of the euro 42,500 ATP Challenger event in Nottingham, England. The unseeded Indian carved out a hard-fought 7-6(5) 7-6(4) win over his Australian opponent.
Somdev Devvarman's quest to win back to back ATP Challenger tournaments remained unfulfilled as he crashed out of the Vancouver Open with a straight sets defeat in the quarter-finals. Somdev went down fighting 4-6, 6-7 (6) against sixth seed Japanese Go Soeda in the last-eight clash in the US $ 1,00,000 hard-court event.
Prakash Amritraj lost 6-7 (2), 7-5, 6-4 to Andrea Stoppini in the quarter-final of the ATP Challenger in Aptos.
Prakash Amritraj and Harsh Mankad finished runners-up at ATP Challenger doubles events. Mankad and his American partner Kaes Van't Hof lost the final of the US $50,000 Sarasota Open in Longboat Key, United States, 2-6, 4-6 to second seeds Victor Estrella of the Dominican Republic and Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico while at the euro 64,000 Izmir Cup in Turkey. Prakash and his American partner Rajeev Ram lost 3-6, 3-6 to top seed Israelis Jonathan Erlich and Harel Levy.
Prakash Amritraj's brilliant run at the euro 85,000 ATP Challenger event in Rhodes, Greece, ended on a disappointing note, the Indian conceding his semi-final match due to a leg injury. Up against seventh seeded German Benjamin Becker, Prakash was trailing 1-6, 2-4 when he opted out of the contest.
Argentina's former world number three Guillermo Coria has quit tennis at the age of 27 because he has lost motivation.
Prakash Amritraj upset fourth seed and world number 109 Vincent Spadea in straight sets to advance to the singles quarter-finals in the US $50,000 ATP Challenger in Tallahassee, United States. The Indian, who achieved a career-best ranking of 185 last week, stunned his American opponent 6-4, 6-1 in the second round clash.
India had a mixed day at the US $50,000 ATP Challenger event in Tallahassee as Prakash Amritraj advanced to the second round but Somdev Devvarman crashed out of the tournament. Amritraj had to dig deep into his reserves to beat local wild card Michael McClune 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (3) in his opening round. Somdev made an early exit after losing his first round match 3-6, 3-6 against Australian Marinkc Matosevic.
Harsh Mankad and Scott Oudsema had to be content with a runners-up finish at the ATP Challenger event at Louisiana in United States after losing the valiantly fought final against top seeded American pair of Bobby Reynolds and Rajeev Ram.
Somdev Devvarman and Harsh Mankad reached the doubles semi-finals of the USD 50,000 ATP Challenger event in the United States after registering contrasting victories.
Somdev Devvarman's giant-killing run ended with a straight-set loss to fourth seeded American Robert Kendrick in the final of the ATP Challenger Series' hard-court tournament in Nashville, US. The Indian Davis Cupper, who had beaten the second and third seeds in the run-up to the final, lost 3-6, 5-7.
India Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj and Jesse Levine overcame a stiff challenge from the American wild card pair of Scott Oudsema and Tim Smyczek to advance to the quarter-finals of the US $50,000 ATP Challenger in Louisville, US. The unseeded Indo-American pair won 6-4, 6-7(5), 10-6.
Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi went down fighting in straight sets to third seeded Russian pair of Michail Elgin and Alexandre Kudryavtsev in the semi-final of the LTAT-SAT Bangkok Open ATP Challenger in Bangkok on Saturday.
India's numero uno tennis player Somdev Devvarman and US-based Prakash Amritraj crashed out out in the opening round of the $ 50,000 ATP Challenger, while compatriot Rohan Bopanna entered the second round of the hard court event in Bangkok on Tuesday.
India's Rohan Bopanna on Monday qualified for main draw of the $ 125,000 Tashkent ATP Challenger tennis tournament, outplaying Germany's Michael Kohlmann 6-3, 6-7 (7-3), 6-3 at the Olympic Tennis School in Tashkent.
Second seeded Prakash Amritraj overcame a fighting Jae Sung An in straight sets to advance to the second round of $ 50,000 ATP Challenger tournament, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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