Sunil Kumar Sipaeya beat Somdev Dev Varman while Vishal Uppal got the better of Vijay Kannan in the ITF Futures tennis championship.
India meet Japan in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I first round tie in Delhi, from February 7 to 9.
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.
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.
The Indian challenge in the men's singles ended with the ouster of Punna Vishal.
The unseeded Indian Davis Cupper beat the sixth seed in straight sets in the ITF tournament.
The duo defeated Sunil Sipaeya and Vinod Sridhar to clinch the men's doubles tennis title at the Afro-Asian Games.
The pairs of Mahesh Bhupathi/Rohan Bopanna and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya/Vinod Sridhar easily won their semi-final matches at the Afro-Asian Games.
In the doubles, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya of India and Anton Kokurin of Uzbekistan lost to top seeds Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan and Aisam Quereshi of Pakistan.
The top seed overcame a poor first set to make it to the last eight in the ITF Masters.
The promising Indian junior wasted two match-points and went down in the second round in the ITF Satellite tournament.
The top seed in the ITF Satellite tournament was beaten by Takeshi Itho.
The US-based Indian entered the final of the ITF Masters, beating Sunil Kumar Sipaeya in the semis.
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