Sunil Kumar Sipaeya was the only Indian player to advance to the second round of the $ 50,000 ATP challenger tournament in New Delhi on Monday as his compatriots Ashutosh Singh and Yuki Bhambri failed to cross the first hurdle.
The only Indian survivors in the Delhi Challenger will face off for a quarter-final place on Wednesday.
The Indian pair of Harsh Mankad and Ashutosh Singh beat the top seeded Indo-American pair of Mustafa Ghouse and Brendan Evans 7-5, 6-3 to clinch the men's doubles title in the ATP Challenger tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex, in Delhi, on Friday.
Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi bowed out of the US $50,000 ATP Challenger Series in New Delhi after losing 2-6, 3-6 in the first round to the unseeded combination of Prakash Amritraj and Rajeev Ram at the DLTA.
Sunitha Rao and her French partner Aurelie Vedy went down fighting against top-seeded Chinese combination of Chun-Mei Ji and Sheng-Nan Sun in the doubles final of the $ 50,000 ITF women's event in New Delhi on Friday.
Vivek Shokeen wasted two match points as he crashed out of the $ 15000 ITF Futures tournament while Navdeep Singh stretched his run to the quarterfinals at DLTA Complex in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Divij Sharan displayed a good serve and volley game to knock his opponent out while Rohan Gajjar outplayed his fifth seed Italian opponent to advance to the second round of the $ 15000 ITF Futures tournament in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Somdev Dev Varman will be looking to repay the team's faith in him when he makes his Davis Cup debut for India against Uzbekistan.
An off-colour Karan Rastogi was whipped 0-6 1-6, while Harsh Mankad also went down in straight sets as Indians drew a blank on the opening day of the $ 50,000 SAIL Open Challenger.
Aisam Qureshi beat Korea's An Jae Sung in the final to capture his first ATP Challenger title.
The Indian Davis Cupper wasted three match-points and was beaten by second seed Igor Kunitsyn of Russia 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 at the ONGC ATP Challenger tournament in Delhi.
The Russian shocked sixth seed Todor Enev of Bulgaria in the final.
Yuki Bhambri put up a brave fight before losing the second round against top seed Aqeel Khan 4-6, 6-7 (5).
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.
India's Karan Rastogi beat Todor Enev of Bulgaria 6-3, 6-2 in the semi-final of the ITF Futures in New Delhi.
Navdeep Singh stunned top seed Kyu-Tae IM to advance to the second round of the USD 15000 ITF Futures tournament.
Karan Rastogi went down to Todor Enev 6-4, 7-6 (3) in the semifinals of the ITF Futures.
Karan Rastogi beat Korean Kyu-Tae Im 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the ITF Futures.
India's Karan Rastogi tamed Hyun-Woo Nam of Korea 6-4, 6-2 to win the ITF Futures in New Delhi.
A first-round exit at the Delhi Open, where he was defending a lot of points, cost Yuki Bhambri eight places, as he dropped out of the top-100 and is placed at 107 in the latest tennis rankings, issued on Monday.
All four contenders from the host country were shown the door in the quarter-finals of the US $25,000 event.
Karan Rastogi beat Nick Monroe 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 to win the Delhi ITF Futures
The Indian shocked top-seed Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of the ITF Satellite event
Sanam Singh suffered a first round loss for the second successive week at the ITF Satellite tennis second leg in New Delhi
Harsh Mankad and Karan Rastogi will compete for the wildcard to the qualifying round of the ABN Amro challenger.
Karan Rastogi registered a straight set 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over Vishal Uppal at the ITF Men's Satellite Masters
The duo beat Israel's Dekel Valtzer and Ashutosh Singh in the doubles final of the Futures tournament.
The US-based Indian ace easily beat Indonesia's Prima Simpatiaji to win the ITF Satellite title.
The Mumbai player was beaten by third seed Konstantin Gruber of Austria.
Divij Sharan Sharan beat Aqeel Khan 7-5, 6-4 to win the fourth leg of the Satellite tournament in New Delhi.
India's Davis Cup captain says it will be tough to decide the two slots between Prakash Amritraj, Harsh Mankad and him for the match against Uzbekistan.
They were beaten by Suchanan Viratprasert and Chin-Bee Khoo respectively in the quarter-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.\n\n
Madura Ranganathan went down to Amina Rakhim of Kazakhstan in the girls' singles final at the Grade-2 ITF junior tennis championships.
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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.
The Indian duo went down to top seeds Murad Inoyatov and Alexey Kedriouk 6-4, 6-2
Ramaswamy beat Adam Fass of the US while Kannan accounted for Tobias Koeck of Austria in the quarter-finals of the ITF men's Satellite Masters tournament.
Both made it to the third round in the ITF tournament.
Archana Venkataraman, Sheethal Goutham, Liza Pereira and Isha Lakhani sailed into the 2nd round in ITF tournament.
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