Date:28/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/28/stories/2008022859562200.htm

Sport - Tennis

Navdeep and Gajjar advance

NEW DELHI: Navdeep Singh and Rohan Gajjar kept the Indian hopes alive even as four others fell by the wayside in the pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Wednesday.

The results: Pre-quarterfinals: Navdeep Singh bt Divij Sharan 6-4, 7-5; Alexey Kedryuk (Kaz) bt Karan Rastogi 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Guillermo Alcaide (Esp) bt Vaja Uzakov (Uzb) 6-7(9), 6-2, 6-3; Rohan Gajjar bt Hsien-Yin Peng (Tpe) 7-6(2), 7-6(7); Peng Sun (Chn) bt Vinod Sridhar 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Simeon Ivanov (Bul) bt Todor Enev (Bul) 6-3, 6-0; David Savic (Srb) bt Tzu-Yang Lin (Tpe) 6-3, 6-4; Alexander Satschko (Ger) bt Vivek Shokeen 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(5).

Doubles: Quarterfinals: Mustafa Ghouse and Purav Raja bt Hsin-Han Lee (Tpe) and Tsung-Hua Yang (Tpe) 6-3, 6-7(5), 10-8; Shokeen and Ashutosh Singh bt Sridhar and Vishnu Vardhan 7-6(5), 7-6(6); Enev and Savic bt N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth and Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan 3-6, 7-5, 10-7; Vijay Kannan and Kedryuk bt Aqeel Khan (Pak) and Yannick Nelord 6-4, 6-4. — Principal Correspondent