Purav Raja enters semifinals

In the semifinal, the top seeded Indo-Aussie pair will play third seeds Mikhail Elgin of Russia and Yaraslav Shyla of Belarus.

In the ITF women’s event in Tunisia, Bhuvana Kalva was outplayed by second seed Andrea Lazaro Garcia of Spain.

Purav Raja in partnership with Rameez Junaid of Australia outplayed Tuna Al Tuna of Turkey and Thomas Fabbiano of Italy 6-1, 6-1 in the doubles quarterfinals of the $75,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.

In the semifinal, the top seeded Indo-Aussie pair will play third seeds Mikhail Elgin of Russia and Yaraslav Shyla of Belarus.

In the ITF women’s event in Tunisia, Bhuvana Kalva was outplayed by second seed Andrea Lazaro Garcia of Spain 6-1, 6-1 in the pre-quarterfinals.