Easy win for Ghouse-Uppal, Bopanna-Kannan toil

Easy win for Ghouse-Uppal, Bopanna-Kannan toil
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Mumbai, November 21: The second-seeded Indian pair of Mustafa Ghouse and Vishal Uppal sailed through to the doubles quarter-finals on the second day of the US $ 10,000 ITF Futures Tennis Tournament at the MSLTA courts, on Tuesday. They routed their Finnish opponents Lauri Kiiski and Tuomas Niskakangas 6-1, 6-4 in an hour and 22 minutes.

The other Indian pair, who made it to the last eight stage, was the duo of Rohan Bopanna and Vijay Kannan who came from a set down to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 against Manoj Mahadevan and Maha Rishi Sridhar.

Mumbai boy Kedar Shah and his Irish partner John Doran also made the quarter-finals with a 7-6 (10-8), 6-3 win over the Indian pair of Nitin Kirtane and Saurav Panja in one and a half hours.

Results: Men’s doubles (1st round): Viktor Bruthans/ Branislav Sekac (Svk) bt Leslie Demiliani (Fra)/ Dario Pizzato (Ita) 6-2, 5-7, 6-4; Rohan Bopanna/ Vijay Kannan (Ind) bt Maha Rishi Sridhar/ Manoj Mahadevan (Ind) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Tomas Janc/ Michal Mertinak (Svk) bt Hans Peter Gaber (Austria)/ Stephen Nugent (Irl) 6-0, 6-0; Anton Kokurin (Uzb)/ Sergei Krotiouk (Rus) bt Shivshankar Kanbargimath/ Vinod Sridhar (Ind) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; Ben Gudzelak/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) bt Kamala Kannan/ Arun Prakash (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Juraj Hasko (Svk)/ Josef Nesticky (Cze) bt Kamil Patel (Mri)/ Efe Ustundag (Tur) 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3); Kedar Shah (Ind)/ John Doran (Irl) bt Nitin Kirtane/ Saurav Panja (Ind) 7-6 (10-8), 6-3; Mustafa Ghouse/ Vishal Uppal (Ind) bt Lauri Kiiski/ Tuomas Niskakangas (Fin) 6-1, 6-4.