Another men's seed had to bite the dust today. Veteran Asif Ismail lost to Vasudev Reddy of Andhra Pradesh 4-6 4-6. Although Ismail charged at the net, he was often left stranded by Reddy's passing shots. Marcus Hilpert, the reigning champion and the fourth seed advanced to the quarter-finals with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Tamil Nadu's Prem Prakash. Maharashtra's Mustafa Ghouse, who had upset the secondseed Vinod Sridhar yesterday, beat wild card Jagdish Tanwar of Rajasthan 6-2, 6-7 (2-7), 6-3 to advance into the round of eight.

Results (prefix denotes seeding)

Men's singles (2nd round): Manoj Mahadevan bt 1-Vijay Kannan 3-6, 7-5, 3-2 (Kannan concedes); Vasudev Reddy bt 8-Asif Ismail 6-4, 6-4; 4-Marcus Hilpert bt Prem Prakash 6-2, 6-3; 6-Sanzaruz Zaman bt Ram Kumar 6-3, 7-6 (7-3); 5-Sourav Panja bt Anand Radhakrishnan 4-6, 6-4 and 6-0; 3-Nitin Kirtane bt Rohan Bopanna 6-3, 5-7, 6-2; 7-Vishal Uppal bt Vinod Sewa 6-4, 6-3; Mustafa Ghouse bt Jagdish Tanwar 6-2, 6-7 (7-2) 6-3.

Men's doubles (QF): Asif Ismail/Hilpert Marcus bt Rajesh Vohra/Akshay Vishal Rao 6-2, 6-2; Shailesh Dhoble/Jagdish Tanwar bt Mustafa Ghouse/Vishal Uppal 6-7 (9-7), 6-4, 6-4; Nitin Kirtane/Sourav Panja bt Vasudev Reddy/Vinod Sridhar 6-2, 1-0 (Reddy/Sridhar concede).

Women's doubles (QF): Sai Jayalakshmi/Rushmi Chakraborty bt Jahnavi Sunderajan/Geetha Manohar 6-1, 6-1; K Janaki/Manisha Malhotra bt SK Tara/Sumitra Rao 7-5, 6-1;Nikita Bhardwaj/Karishma Patel bt Simmi Rani/Lisa Pereira 7-5, 6-3; V Archana/V Arthi bt Sai Rajlakshmi/V Kameshwari 6-1, 6-1.