The Mumbai player was beaten by third seed Konstantin Gruber of Austria.
Second seed Vijay Kannan was thrashed by Ireland's Peter Clarke in the quarter-finals of the ITF tournament.
Shweta Kakhandaki/Poojashree Venkatesh and Sumit Gupta/Vivek Shokeen won their quarter-final matches in the ITF tournament in Islamabad.
The Indian ace easily beat Indonesia's Prima Simpatiaji in the final.
The centre-back was at the Madrid Open earlier this week, reportedly to discuss a 16-team knockout tournament with ATP Tour chief Chris Kermode. It would potentially replace the former World Team Cup event on the ATP calendar that was played from 1975 to 2012 ahead of Roland Garros.
The Indian youngster won the singles and doubles crown in the ITF Grade 4 Junior championship there.
The second seed demolished qualifier Minori Takemoto of Japan in the ITF Women's Futures tournament.
Chin-Wei Chan clinched the singles title in the US dollar 25,000 MSLTA ITF Women's Tennis Championship in Mumbai.
The sixth seeded Indian will take on compatriot Shruti Dhawan in the semi-finals of the ITF women's tournament in Mumbai.
The eighth seeded Indian lost to German Peter Mayer-Tischer in the ITF Futures event in Colombo.
The sixth seeded Indian beaten by unseeded Wing-Yau Chan in the second round of the ITF-Shivaji Park Gymkhana tournament.
Andrea Lipovska of Australia pulled off a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 win over a gallant Sagarika Phadke of India.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by Simon Greul of Germany in the ITF Futures tournament.
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 other semifinal match-up will be between Febi Widhiyanto of Indonesia and Malaysian Yew Ming Si.
The Indian duo went down to top seeds Murad Inoyatov and Alexey Kedriouk 6-4, 6-2
He was included in the Davis Cup team for the Asia Oceania Group 1 tie against New Zealand from February 6 to 8.
Sania Mirza beat Tetiana Luzhanska of Belarus to make the grade at the ITF Women's World Ranking tournament.
Prakash Amritraj made the grade after his opponent Mustafa Ghouse retired hurt.
English qualfier Daniel Kiernan and Prima Simpatiaji of Indonesia accounted for their scalps in the ITF Satellite tournament.
Commitments in Italy forced the defending champion to skip the ITF women's championship.
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 third seeded Pakistani upset the former India Davis Cupper and winner of the second leg in the ITF Satellite Masters tennis tournament.
However, second seeded Sai Jayalakshmi failed to make it in the ITF Futures tournament.
Both advanced to the second round of the MSLTA-ITF Futures tournament.
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The 18-year-old won the boys' singles and doubles titles at the ITF Grade 2 Hong Kong Open Junior championships.
The merger, in which TCS will hold 51 per cent stake and Mitsubishi 49 per cent, will create a new IT services company of significant scale in the Japanese market with annual turnover of over $600 million.
Ajay Ramaswamy won the battle of Indians when he beat Vijay Kannan to enter the final of ITF Satellite Masters tennis tournament.
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.
Vivek Shokeen and Sumit Prakash Gupta won the boys' doubles title in the Grade 5 ITF junior tournament
The world No. 1 faces a possible fine for not attending the team news conference ahead of the Davis Cup tie against Britain.
Ajay Ramaswami had it easy against Germany's Peter Mayer-Tischer, while former Davis Cupper Vishal Uppal accounted for Alexandra Simon of Romania in the ITF Satellite tournament.
The victory gave the unseeded Sekar a berth in the quarter-finals of the ITF tournament.
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