However, his compatriots Vishal Uppal, Vinod Sridhar and Rohan Bopanna were eliminated from the ITF Futures Tennis Championship.
On a day of upsets in the ATP Challenger, the Indian ace lost to Chinese Taipei qualifier Ti Chen.
Prakash Amritraj lost 6-7 (2), 7-5, 6-4 to Andrea Stoppini in the quarter-final of the ATP Challenger in Aptos.
Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj crashed out of the US $35,000 ATP Challenger in Rimouski, Canada, after conceding his first round match against James Ward. The Indian was trailing 1-6, 2-4 against his British opponent when he decided to opt out of the contest.
Stephen Amrtiraj and Mustafa Ghouse won the doubles title at the Dehradun Futures.
India had a mixed day at the US $50,000 ATP Challenger event in Tallahassee as Prakash Amritraj advanced to the second round but Somdev Devvarman crashed out of the tournament. Amritraj had to dig deep into his reserves to beat local wild card Michael McClune 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (3) in his opening round. Somdev made an early exit after losing his first round match 3-6, 3-6 against Australian Marinkc Matosevic.
The Indian Davis Cupper made it to the quarter-finals in the singles and doubles. In singles he beat Ivan Miranda of Peru 6-4, 6-3, while in doubles he teamed with Alex Kuznetsov to defeat Colin Ebelthite of Australia and Peter Polansky of Canada 6-2, 4-6, 11-9.
Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj continued his sizzling form to storm into the quarter-finals of the US $ 75000 ATP Challenger tournament in Aptos after posting a convincing straight sets win. Prakash, who had knocked out top seed Amer Delic in the first round, beat American wild card Phillip Simmonds 6-4, 6-2 in the second round.
Prakash Amritraj put up a brilliant fight back to advance to the singles second round of Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.
India's Prakash Amritraj, Rohan Bopanna and Karan Rastogi advanced to the second round of the Chikmagalur Challenger
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.
Prakash Amritraj beat Karan Rastogi 7-6 (5), 6-1 to win the ITF Futures in Chandigarh.
Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic was awarded the third wildcard at the Chennai Open.
Amritraj, a wild card, was leading 5-3 in the first set when the Russian retired with an injury to his left wrist.
Harsh Mankad and Prakash Amritraj registered straight set wins to advance into the quarterfinals of the Nottingham Challengers.
Prakash Amritraj bagged his third successive title, winning the ITF Masters crown.
The second singles between Prakash Amritraj and Wang Yu had to be called off for the day following repeated rain interruptions.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by Simon Greul of Germany in the ITF Futures tournament.
Saketh Myneni and Prakash Amritraj kept the Indian flag flying by reaching the men's singles semi-finals in the US $15,000 ITF men's Future Tennis tournament, in Pune, on Thursday. Fourth seed Myneni accounted for fifth seed, National champion Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 7-6(5), 6-2 in 86 minutes while giant-killer and comeback man Amritraj upset third seed Liang-Chi Huang of Taipei 7-6(4) 6-1 in 78 minutes in the quarter-finals.
India's Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj won their respective first round Australian Open qualifying matches.
The top seed overcame a poor first set to make it to the last eight in the ITF Masters.
Prakash Amritraj made the grade after his opponent Mustafa Ghouse retired hurt.
Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj beat Jasper Smit of The Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinal.
Prakash Amritraj's brilliant run at the euro 85,000 ATP Challenger event in Rhodes, Greece, ended on a disappointing note, the Indian conceding his semi-final match due to a leg injury. Up against seventh seeded German Benjamin Becker, Prakash was trailing 1-6, 2-4 when he opted out of the contest.
Pakistan's Aisam Qureshi was also beaten in the quarter-finals, an the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.
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.
Prakash Amritraj beat Wang Yu of China to give India a 2-0 lead in the Davis Cup.
Prakash Amritraj will next face Kristian Pless of Austria in the quarter-finals of the Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships.
Former captain Ramesh Krishnan said the onus was on Prakash Amritraj and Rohan Bopanna to do well in Davis Cup.
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.
He will meet Indonesia's Prima Simpatiaji in the final of the ITF Satellite tournament.
The second highest-ranked Indian on the circuit is now perched at 262.
Prakash Amritraj retired hurt while trailing Australian Sadik Kadir in the ITF Futures tournament in Jakarta.
Prakash Amritraj will take on Jonas Bjorkman in the opening singles of the Davis Cup World Group play-off.
Prakash Amritraj yet again failed to make the main the draw of a Grand Slam event when he crashed out of the French Open qualifiers, losing in the first round to Brazilian Joano Souza in Paris on Tuesday.
India's non-playing captain Leander Paes on Friday took Prakash Amritraj to task for claiming to the media that he was fully fit for Friday's Davis Cup singles tie against Uzbekistan.
The other semifinal match-up will be between Febi Widhiyanto of Indonesia and Malaysian Yew Ming Si.
Marcos Bagdhatis proved too hot to handle for Prakash Amritraj as the Indian lost to formidable Cyprus star in straight sets at the ATP Vancouver Open.
The Indian wild card beat Serbian Ilia Bozolijac in the first round of Hall of Fame Championships.
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