The Indian Davis Cupper beat 156-ranked Frenchman to make the second round in the ATP Challenger.
The other semi-final in the ITF Futures tournament will pit Pakistan's Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi and qualifier Sergei Krotiouk of Russia.
Both lost in the qualification round of the Grand Slam tournament.
Harsh Mankad and Karan Rastogi will compete for the wildcard to the qualifying round of the ABN Amro challenger.
Harsh Mankad reached the men's doubles finals of the USD 50,000 ATP Challenger tournament in the United States but it was curtains for Somdev Devvarman, who lost the semi-finals along with Treat Conrad Huey.
While fellow Indian Prakash Amritraj lost to Justin Gimelstob 3-6, 3-6 in the Nottingham ATP Challenger
Mankad had a tough time beating Ajay Ramaswami while the Dutchman easily beat Vinod Sridhar in the semi-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.
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.
Harsh Mankad and Ashutosh Singh beat the top three seeds en route to victory at the US $ 50,000 ATP Challenger in New Delhi to become the first Indian team in almost two years to win a Challenger title.
The Indian ace won the first set but turned erratic thereafter and lost to Bulgaria's Todov Enev in the semi-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.
Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Harsh Mankad set up a final clash against each other in the $ 10,000 ITF event after winning their respective singles semi-finals in Chandigarh on Friday.
The top seeded Indo-Pak duo rallied from a first set deficit to beat Asian Games bronze medallists Vishal Uppal and Mustafa Ghouse in the final.
Harsh Mankad, included as a reserve player in the squad, had earlier demanded a guarantee of him playing in the tie.
The duo beat Israel's Dekel Valtzer and Ashutosh Singh in the doubles final of the Futures tournament.
The Indian pair of Harsh Mankad and Ashutosh Singh pulled off an upset and tamed second seeds Adam Feeney and Purav Raja in straight sets to move into the final of the men's doubles event in the ATP Challenger tennis tournament in New Delhi on Thursday
With their number one player Prakash Amritraj sitting pretty, the toss up will be between Bopanna and Mankad when India decides on the final two for the Davis Cup tie against Japan on Friday.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by second seeded Frenchman Gregory Carraz in the ATP Challenger.
The up-and-coming junior was humbled by the Indian Davis Cupper after winning the first set in the ITF Futures tournament.
With their exit the Indian singles challenge ended in the Belgaum Open ATP Challenger.
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.
Saurashtra registered their narrowest T20 victory in terms of runs, edging Karnataka by one run in the Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 Elite Group D match.
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.
Mhatre's maiden ton, Dube blitz fire Mumbai to seven-wicket win over Vidarbha
Harsh Mankad, the fifth seed defeated Seung Hoon Ho of Korea 6-1, 6-2.
National hardcourt champion Vinod Sridhar, however, went down to second seed Dmitri Vlasov in the ITF Futures tournament.
A round-up of Sunday's action in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy group stage matches.
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.
The doubles ace said the three youngsters are the future of Indian tennis.
The Indian Davis Cupper filled the third and final wild card slot in the main draw of the ATP event, starting in Chennai on Monday.\n\n
Prakash Amritraj will face Harsh Mankad in the first round of the ATP Tour Tata Open at Chennai.
Harsh Mankad packed off Sun Peng in straight sets to give India a 1-0 lead in the Davis Cup tie against China.
Harsh Mankad and his partner Treat Conard Huey rallied from a set down to advance to the doubles semi-finals of the ATP Challenger event in Champaign, United States.
India's singles challenge ended at the 425,000 ATP Challenger event IN Bergamo with the first round defeat of Prakash Amritraj.
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.
Harsh Mankad said that there was no pressure on Leander Paes to play the singles in the upcoming Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan
India's Davis Cup captain Leander Paes admitted there are egos to be handled in the team but expressed confidence that his boys will come out trumps in the match against Japan.
Leander Paes and Sania Mirza will lead India in the individual and team tennis events at the Asian Games, in Doha in December.
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