NEW DELHI: National champion Purav Raja emerged the lone Indian to make the singles quarterfinals after he outplayed his doubles partner Tushar Liberhan 6-3, 6-2 in the $10,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament at Manado, Indonesia, on Wednesday.
The Indian players, seeded No.1 and 2 in the doubles, managed to make the quarterfinals without much effort.
Aditya Madkekar and Ashutosh Singh, who were unable to justify their third and fourth seeding in singles as they lost in the pre-quarterfinals, got a walk-over in their first-round match in doubles.
Doubles: Tushar Liberhan/ Purav Raja bt Manico Matosevic/ Andrew Roberts (Aus) 6-0, 6-3; Aditya Madkekar/ Ashutosh Singh w/o Sydney Jim (U.S.)/ Kaushik Raju.
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