Nitin Kirtane only surviving Indian

Nitin Kirtane only surviving Indian
Pradeep Veeraswamy

Hyderabad, Jan 12: Nitin Kirtane is the lone Indian to enter the last eight stage in the men's singles as all the quarter-finalists were spotted on the fourth day of the ITF Futures men's tennis championship at the APLTA Gymkhana courts on Wednesday.

Apart from the upset of fifth seed Nir Welgreen (Israel) by Sander Groen (Netherlands) in the men's singles pre-quarterfinals, the rest of the matches went as expected.

Fourth seeds Mustafa Ghouse/Vishaal Uppal (Ind) are the only seeded pair remaining in the doubles competition. The other pairs who made it to the semi-finals are Saurav Panja/Prahlad Srinath (Ind), Boris Borgula(Svk)/Kobi Ziv (Isr) and Pramono Hendri S/Widhiyanto Febi (Ina).

Results

Pre-quarterfinals: Kobi Ziv (Isr) bt Vishaal Uppal (Ind) 6-4, 6-4; Golovanov Denis (Rus) bt Dimitri Mazur (Uzb) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3; Nitin Kirtane (Ind) bt Suwandi-Suwandi (Ina) 7-6, 1-6, 7-6(8); Ladislav Svarc (Svk) bt Vinod Shridhar (Ind) 6-1, 6-1; Ivanov S Kirill (Rus) bt Sandeep Kirtane 7-5, 6-1; Andy Ram (Isr) bt Saurav Panja (Ind) 6-2, 6-1; Jeremy Delinbeuf (Fra) bt Pramono Hendri S (Ina) 6-4, 1-6, 6-3; Sander Groen (Ned) bt Nir Welgreen (Isr) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

Doubles (quarter-finals): Boris Borgula(Svk)/Kobu Ziv (Isr) bt Edy Kusdaryanto/Suwandi-Suwandi (Ina) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Mustafa Ghouse/Vishaal Uppal (Ind) bt Nitin Kirtane(Ind) Radim Zitko (Cze) 6-3, 6-4; Saurav Panja/Prahlad Srinath (Ind) bt K Shivshankar/Vinod Shridhar (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Pramono Hendri S/Widhiyanto Febi (Ina) bt Golovano Denis/Ivanov S Kirill (Rus) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.