Shokeen conceded his second round match to Chinese Taipei's Tsung-Hua Yang, while Kannan went down fighting to Brazil's Guilherme Ochiai in the ITF Futures tournament in Dehradun.
The top seed was taken the distance by Navdeep Singh before making the semi-finals in the Delhi ITF Futures tournament.
The top seed was extended by Aditya Madkekar in the pre-quarter-finals of the ITF Futures Men's Tennis Tournament in Delhi.
The US-based Indian ace began his quest for a third successive ITF Futures with an easy win over qualifier Shivang Mishra.
Prakash Amritraj beat Karan Rastogi in the final to win the USD 10,000 ITF Futures men's tennis tournament.
Stephen Amrtiraj and Mustafa Ghouse won the doubles title at the Dehradun Futures.
Top seed Karan Rastogi defeated Aditya Madkekar 6-1, 3-6, 6-0 to enter the last four.
In a major upset in the ITF Futures tournament in Dehradun, sixth seed Navdeep Singh was ousted from the US $10,000 tournament by Uzbek Sarvar Ikramov.
Prakash Amritraj beat Karan Rastogi 7-6 (5), 6-1 to win the ITF Futures in Chandigarh.
Prakash Amritraj and Karan Rastogi will contest the singles final at the Chandigarh ITF on Saturday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Delhi teenager Yuki Bhambri pulled off a major upset at $ 10,000 ITF men's event by defeating Chinese Davis Cupper Peng Sun in straight sets to storm into the singles quarterfinals in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
Karan Rastogi beat Korean Kyu-Tae Im 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the ITF Futures.
Third seed Karan Rastogi dropped a set before overcoming lower-ranked Huai-En Chang of Chienese Taipei in the first round of the Oil India ITF Futures tournament.
Harsh Mankad beat Sri Lanka's Harshana Goddamane 6-1, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the ITF Futures in Mumbai.
Harsh Mankad staged a strong recovery after losing the first set to beat up-and-coming Navdeep Singh and enter the quarter-finals in the US $10,000 ITF Futures tournament in Mumbai on Wednesday. Mankad used his experience and Navdeep's restricted movement to clinch the second round match 6-7, 7-5, 6-2 in three hours and 16 minutes.
Navdeep Singh stunned top seed Kyu-Tae IM to advance to the second round of the USD 15000 ITF Futures tournament.
Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj beat Jasper Smit of The Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinal.
Birbal Wadhera, a tennis umpire from Chandigarh, has been selected for umpiring at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London.
Top seed Manisha Malhotra and second seed Rushmi Chakravarthi however made the grade easily, in the ITF Futures tournament.
Karan Rastogi beat Nick Monroe 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 to win the Delhi ITF Futures
Indian favourite Karan Rastogi romped to a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Amir Weintraub of Israel
Sania slipped four places to 46th, while a hat-trick of ITF Futures titles saw Prakash Amritraj jump 66 places to 498th.
He beat him for the third consecutive time and completed a hat-trick of ITF Futures titles on Saturday.
He scored a commanding 6-2, 6-4 win over Ivan Cerovic of Croatia, who had beaten top seed Aisam Qureshi earlier in the day.
However, his compatriots Vishal Uppal, Vinod Sridhar and Rohan Bopanna were eliminated from the ITF Futures Tennis Championship.
The duo beat Israel's Dekel Valtzer and Ashutosh Singh in the doubles final of the Futures tournament.
Joining them in the quarter-finals of the MSLTA-ITF Futures tournament were top seed David Sherwood of Britain, Simon Greul of Germany, Vishal Uppal, Englishman Michael Ouvarov and Karan Rastogi.
However, second seeded Sai Jayalakshmi failed to make it in the ITF Futures tournament.
The Mumbai lad pulled off the biggest win of his career when he beat the world No 106-ranked Brazilian in straight sets to enter the second round of the Chennai Open.
Aisam Qureshi beat Rohan Bopanna 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final of the US$ 15,000 ITF Futures.
They were beaten by Suchanan Viratprasert and Chin-Bee Khoo respectively in the quarter-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.\n\n
The eighth seeded Indian lost to German Peter Mayer-Tischer in the ITF Futures event in Colombo.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by Simon Greul of Germany in the ITF Futures tournament.
While top seed Aisam Qureshi of Pakistan and Prakash Amritraj moved into the second round of the ITF Men's Futures Tennis in Bangalore.
Mankad progressed after his opponent Jamie Delgado of England retired due to dehydration, while Capkovic beat Karan Rastogi 6-4, 6-2 in the other semi-final.
Unseeded Karan Rastogi overcame formidable Nick Munroe of USA 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) in a tight quarter-final encounter.
The German won the Delhi leg of the ITF Futures tournament to pick his fifth career title.
Eighth seed Vijay Kannan however failed to advance, losing to Murad Inoyatov of Uzbekistan, in the ITF Futures tournament.
Both advanced to the second round of the MSLTA-ITF Futures tournament.
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