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.
The top seed was taken the distance by Navdeep Singh before making the semi-finals in the Delhi ITF Futures tournament.
Leander Paes and Sania Mirza will lead India in the individual and team tennis events at the Asian Games, in Doha in December.
The top seed was extended by Aditya Madkekar in the pre-quarter-finals of the ITF Futures Men's Tennis Tournament in Delhi.
Prakash Amritraj beat Karan Rastogi in the final to win the USD 10,000 ITF Futures men's tennis tournament.
Stephen Amrtiraj and Mustafa Ghouse won the doubles title at the Dehradun Futures.
Top seed Karan Rastogi defeated Aditya Madkekar 6-1, 3-6, 6-0 to enter the last four.
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 Karan Rastogi 7-6 (5), 6-1 to win the ITF Futures in Chandigarh.
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.
Victor Hanescu and Victor Crivoi beat Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj respectively to give Romania a decisive 2-0 lead in the Davis Cup play-off match. Hanescu thundered his way to a 6-3, 6-1, 6-0 win over young Devvarman after Crivoi had got past an erratic Amritraj 7-5, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 in the first singles of the day.
Prakash Amritraj will take on Jonas Bjorkman in the opening singles of the Davis Cup World Group play-off.
India's Prakash Amritraj, Rohan Bopanna and Karan Rastogi advanced to the second round of the Chikmagalur Challenger
Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj beat Jasper Smit of The Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinal.
Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj play the opening singles against Korea in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I first round tie.
Defending champion Paradon Srichaphan stormed into the last eight as seeds David Ferrer and Anthony Dupuis were upset in the Tata Open.
Mahesh Bhupathi, Prakash Amritraj and Rohan Bopanna have been included in the original squad, announced last week.
The IOC chief said the doubles ace and Prakash Amritraj confirmed participation for the Games.
Rohan Bopanna replaces Harsh Mankad in Davis Cup team for World Group play-off.
The other semifinal match-up will be between Febi Widhiyanto of Indonesia and Malaysian Yew Ming Si.
The US-based Indian ace easily beat Indonesia's Prima Simpatiaji to win the ITF Satellite title.
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.
Prakash Amritraj will next face Kristian Pless of Austria in the quarter-finals of the Shimadzu All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships.
In the second singles at the Jai Club courts, Prakash Amritraj will clash against Denis Istomin.
Till some singles talent is unearthed India will have to look up to captain Leander Paes to deliver the goods, says Davis Cup coach Nandan Bal.
However, his compatriots Vishal Uppal, Vinod Sridhar and Rohan Bopanna were eliminated from the ITF Futures Tennis Championship.
Former captain Ramesh Krishnan said the onus was on Prakash Amritraj and Rohan Bopanna to do well in Davis Cup.
India's world No. 32 should have it easy when she takes on Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in the first round of the Australian Open.
Instead he is fielding youngsters Harsh Mankad and Prakash Amritraj in the Asia-Oceania group I Davis Cup tie against China.
Leander Paes and Martin Damm have been drawn to take on Tomas Cibulec and David Skoch in the first round of the doubles event at the Chennai Open.
Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic was awarded the third wildcard at the Chennai Open.
He beat him for the third consecutive time and completed a hat-trick of ITF Futures titles on Saturday.
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.
Joining them in the quarter-finals of the MSLTA-ITF Futures tournament were top seed David Sherwood of Britain, Simon Greul of Germany, Vishal Uppal, Englishman Michael Ouvarov and Karan Rastogi.
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