Unseeded Yamini Thukkaiandi caused an upset, beating seventh seed Preety Rao in the ITF tournament.
According to the latest rankings issued on Monday, the left-handed Sharan is ranked 50th after gaining a place. He had reached the final of the last three tournaments he participated in, winning the ATP 250 European Open, while ending runner-up at Challenger events in Brest and Tashkent with different partners.
Mankad had a tough time beating Ajay Ramaswami while the Dutchman easily beat Vinod Sridhar in the semi-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.
The victory gave the Dutchman a place in the semi-finals of the ITF Futures tournament along with unseeded Vinod Sridhar, Ajay Ramaswami and second seed Harsh Mankad.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by unseeded Jasper Smit of The Netherlands in the pre-quarter-finals of the ITF Futures tounament.
The Indian youngster beat fourth seed Toshihide Matsui of Japan to enter the second round in the ITF Futures tournament in Mumbai.
The Indian youngster rallied after losing the first set to beat the dutchman and enter the third round inthe ITF Futures tournament.
The up-and-coming junior was humbled by the Indian Davis Cupper after winning the first set in the ITF Futures tournament.
Sunil Kumar Sipaeya also advanced to the second round with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Gurmehar Singh in the $10,000 ITF Futures men's tennis tournament.
Vishal became the only Indian to enter the semifinals of the ONGC ITF Futures men's tennis tournament in Dehradun.
Top seed Mankad lost to Uzbekistan's Dmitry Mazur while 18-year old Liberhan shocked fifth seed Matwe Middelkoop of The Netherlands in the ITF Futures tournament.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
The unseeded Indian Davis Cupper beat the sixth seed in straight sets in the ITF tournament.
Both made the grade in the ITF Futures tournament with contrasting wins.
The sixth seed will meet unseeded Thai challenger Thassha Vitayaviroj in the semi-finals of the ITF women's tournament.
Joining them were Chin-Bee Khoo of Malaysia and Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, in the ITF Futures tournament.
Rushmi Chakravarthy also made the grade in the CCI-ITF Futures tournament in Mumbai.
The young Indian star went down tamely to Akgul Amanmuradova 2-6, 3-6 in the singles final of the NSCI-ITF women's tennis tournament.
The top seed was beaten by qualifier Archana Venkataraman in the ITF Futures tournament in Mumbai.
The diminutive Mumbai lass beat the Wimbledon girls' doubles champion to enter the semi-finals in the NSCI-ITF women's tennis tournament.
The lone Indian survivor was beaten by Japanese qualifier Naoki Arimoto in the ITF Futures tennis tournament.
Yeu-Tuoo Wang of Chinese Taipei, at 204, is the highest ranked player in the fray for the ITF Futures tennis tournament in Mumbai.
The top seeded Indian beat compatriot Lalit Mann to set up a meeting with Shahzad Khan in the Pakistan ITF event.
The Indian ace easily beat Silawan Choptang of Thailand in the 10,000 ITF tournament in Jakarta.
The Indian ace made the grade in the singles and doubles in the second leg of the ITF women's event in Jakarta.
Sania was forced to drop a set by Shruthi Dhawan before making the grade in the ITF event in Jakarta.
The two Indian junior Davis Cup team members posted contrasting wins in the ITF Grade 5 tournament in Islamabad.
However, her compatriot Sai Jayalakshmi failed to make it, losing to unseeded Julia Vorobieva, in the ITF tournament.
The unseeded Vakharia toppled the top seed in straight sets to enter the last 8 in the ITF tournament.
Jeevan Nedunchezian's win over world No. 14 Bohan Bozovic could not prevent India from going down in the opening tie of the ITF Junior Davis Cup.
Malaysia's Chin-Bee Khoo and Suchanan Viratprasert of Thailand will contest the singles final in the ITF Futures tournament.
'He has injured his knee tendon. It is not serious and he will be fit to play in the Davis Cup,' Prakash's father Vijay Amritraj said.
The seventh seed stagved off a late fightback from the Delhi girl to advance to the quarter-finals in the ITF Futures tournament.
Prakash Amritraj retired hurt while trailing Australian Sadik Kadir in the ITF Futures tournament in Jakarta.
Sania Mirza and Anna Tchakvetadze of Russia went down 1-6, 6-2, 3-6 to Ana Ivanovic of Yugoslavia and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia.
The victory earned Bopanna a meeting with Russia's Dmitri Vlasov in the f inal of the ITF Futures tournament.
The Indian ace defeated Bardina of Russia in straight sets in the US $25,000 ITF women's tournament in Lagos, Nigeria.
The unseeded Indian ace whipped Vitali Chevts of Belarus to set up a meeting with fifth seed Todor Enev of Bulgaria in the ITF Futures tournament.
The up-and-coming Hyderabadi lass extended second seed Jennifer Schmidt of Austria before losing in the NECC-ITF women's tournament.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
In another match, German qualifier Varana Marie Beller crushed eighth seed Sonal Phadke to move into the quarter-finals of the ITF women's tennis tournament.\n\n
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