The pair of Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay beat wildcard entrants Philipp Kohlschreiber and Max Mirnyi 6-2, 6-1 to make the doubles quarterfinals of the EUR 2.6 million ATP Tour event in Vienna.
In the quarterfinals, the Indo-Uruguayan pair will play the top seeds Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Marcelo Melo of Brazil.
Divij Sharan - in partnership with Scott Clayton of Britain - made the doubles semifinals in the EUR 106,000 Challenger in France. But, Leander Paes and Purav Raja lost a close match 10-3 in the super tie-break in the quarterfinals, and had to settle for 20 ATP points and EUR 1,360.
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In the USD 75,000 Challenger in China, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, seeded No. 1 with Christopher Rungkat of Indonesia, made the doubles semifinals.
In the ITF Futures in Malaysia, Arjun Kadhe made the quarterfinals, while lucky-loser Kaza Vinayak Sharma went down fighting to the top seed Scott Griekspoor of the Netherlands.
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In the USD 60,000 ITF women’s event in China, Ankita Raina, in partnership with Dalila Jakupovic of Slovenia, made the doubles semifinals, and will challenge the top seeds.
The results
EUR 2,621,850 ATP, Vienna, Austria
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Pablo Cuevas (Uru) & Rohan Bopanna bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) & Max Mirnyi (Blr) 6-2, 6-1.
EUR 106,000 Challenger men, Brest, France
Doubles (quarterfinals): Tristan Lamasine & Hugo Nys (Fra) bt Leander Paes & Purav Raja 2-6, 7-6(8), 10-3; Scott Clayton (GBR) & Divij Sharan bt Yannick Hanfmann & Kevin Krawietz (Ger) 7-6(5), 6-3.
USD 75,000 Challenger men, Suzhou, China
Doubles (quarterfinals): Christopher Rungkat (Ina) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Markus Eriksson (Swe) & Naoki Nakagawa (Jpn) 6-3, 6-4.
USD 15,000 ITF men, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe bt Denis Yevseyev (Kaz) 7-5, 2-0 (retired); Scott Griekspoor (Ned) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 6-2, 7-5.
Doubles (semifinals): Wilfredo Gonzalez (Gua) & Francesco Vilardo (Ita) bt Christian Didier Chin (Mas) & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-3, 6-0.
USD 60,000 ITF women, Luzhou, China
Doubles (quarterfinals): Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) & Ankita Raina bt Zharian Wei & Yuxuan Zhang (Chn) 6-0, 7-6 (6).
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