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Sanam shocks Alexey

NEW DELHI: Sanam Singh caused a flutter as he put out the second-seeded Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 in the pre-quarterfinals of the State Bank of Saurashtra $15,000 ITF men's Futures tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Wednesday.

Sanam will next meet qualifier Hyun-Woo Nam of Korea while top seed Rohan Bopanna will clash with Karan Rastogi.

The results: Singles: Pre-quarterfinals: Rohan Bopanna bt Sunil Kumar 6-3, 6-4; Karan Rastogi bt Tushar Liberhan 6-3, 6-2; Hiroki Kondo (Jpn) bt Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (Can) 6-4, 6-2; Divij Sharan bt Xavier Pujo (Fra) 6-2, 6-4; Todor Enev (Bul) bt Hsin-Han Lee (Tpe) 6-4, 6-0; Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak) bt Franck Dalla-Santa (Fra) 7-6 (4), 6-4; Hyun-Woo Nam (Kor) bt Ashutosh Singh 6-1, 6-3; Sanam Singh bt Alexey Kedriouk (Kaz) 6-4, 1-6, 7-5.

Doubles: Quarterfinals: Rohan Bopanna and Mustafa Ghouse bt Vladislav Bondarenko (Ukr) and Todor Enev (Bul) 6-3, 6-4; Vijay Kannan and Pathanjali Ravishankar bt Stephen Amritraj (US) and Kamala Kannan 7-6 (4), 6-3; Sandeep Kirtane and Purav Raja bt Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (Can) and Petar Jelenic (Cro) 6-1, 7-6 (4); Alexey Kedriouk (Kaz) and Sunil Kumar bt Vinod Sridhar and Vishaal Uppal 6-3, 7-5. — Special Correspondent

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