The 20-year-old is prepared to go through the grind for a berth in the main draw of the Mumbai Open.
Prakash Amritraj and Karan Rastogi will clash in the final for the third time after contrasting semi-final victories in the Delhi leg of the ITF Futures.
Stephen Amrtiraj and Mustafa Ghouse won the doubles title at the Dehradun Futures.
Top seed Karan Rastogi entered the quarter-finals of the ITF men's Futures Tennis Tournament, scoring a 6-1, 6-7(6), 6-1 victory over Sanam Singh.
Karan Rastogi beat Korean Kyu-Tae Im 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the ITF Futures.
Karan Rastogi of Maharashtra and Vinod Sridhar of Tamil Nadu will clash in the final of the National Ranking tournament.
He was included in the Davis Cup team for the Asia Oceania Group 1 tie against New Zealand from February 6 to 8.
Karan Rastogi outplayed compatriot and National champion Ashutosh Singh to storm into the quarter-finals of the US $15,000 ITF men's tennis event in Taizhou, China, on Thursday. Rastogi tamed Singh 6-1, 6-2 in a second round match at the hard court event.
Debutant Vivek Shokeen lost 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 to Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin in the opening Davis Cup rubber.
The top two seeds were beaten by Chen-Huan Yi of Chinese Taipei and Arun Prakash Rajagopalan respectively in the semi-finals of the Asian junior tennis championships.
Karan Rastogi, who along with Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj, said they would not play under Davis Cup captain Leander Paes, withdrew his statement saying he has sorted out the issue with the veteran Indian tennis ace.
The second-seeded Indian pair of Karan Rastogi and Ashutosh Singh won the doubles title at the US $15,000 ITF tennis tournament in Beijing, beating top-seeds Matthew Ebden and Brydan Klein of Australia 6-2, 6-3 in the final. Rastogi also made it to the semi-finals of the singles, beating local challenger Jun-Chao Xu 6-2, 6-4 in a quarter-final match.
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.
Indian Davis Cupper Karan Rastogi has bagged a sponsorship deal with that will cover his expenses for the year.
Top seed Karan Rastogi and No. 6 Yuki Bhambri, both of India, registered comfortable second round wins to ease into the quarter-finals of the CCI-ITF US$15,000 Men's Futures tennis tournament, at the Cricket Club of India, in Mumbai, on Wednesday.
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.
India went down 1-4 to Uzbekistan in the Asia-Oceania Zone Group I Davis Cup match.
The Mumbai lad was beaten but not disgraced by the world No 2 at the Chennai Open.
The Indian challenge ended in the US $15,000 ITF men's hardcourt tournament in Taizhou, China, with the defeat of Karan Rastogi in the quarter-finals on Friday. The unseeded Indian lost 6-4, 2-6, 4-6 to Japanese Toshihide Matsui.
Prakash Amritraj beat Michael Ouvarov of Britain while unseeded Rastogi sent sixth seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya packing in the MSLTA-ITF Men's Futures tournament.
The 19-year old, after beating some top players in the ABN Amro event last week, is hopeful of making it to India's Davis Cup squad next year.
Navdeep Singh stunned top seed Kyu-Tae IM to advance to the second round of the USD 15000 ITF Futures tournament.
The Asian number one junior player benefitted from Leander Paes's injury who withdrew from the event.
India's No 2 tennis player Karan Rastogi wants to win back his place in Indian Davis Cup squad and improve on his ranking this year.
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.
The fourth seeded Karan defeated Chinese Taipei's Chu-Huan Yi 6-1 7-6 (7/1) in the third round.
The 17-year-old rallied to make the grade in the Osaka Mayor's Cup tennis tournament
He was beaten by Arvind Parmar of Great Britain in the
The Indian players received two of the allotted three wild cards for the ATP event in Mumbai.
The organisers sprung a surprise by awarding the third wild card to Bartolome Salva-Vidal of Spain.
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.
Nitin Kirtane of Maharshtra and Gautam Arjun of Karnataka also made it to the semi finals of National Ranking Tennis
The Indian youngster went down to ninth seed Yi Chu-Huan of Chinese Taipei at the Canadian Open junior tennis championships.
The Indian tennis ace is looking for support that will take care of his expenses that amount to at least a crore per annum to survive at the highest level.
Karan Rastogi was given the third and final wild card for the singles event of the Chennai Open tennis championship.
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