MANISH SURESHKUMAR MEETS NITIN KUMAR SINHA IN SEMIFINALS IN COLOMBO

Manish Sureshkumar knocked out third seed Michal Dembek of Poland 6-3, 6-3 and set up a semifinal clash against compatriot Nitin Kumar Sinha in the $15,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament in Colombo on Thursday.

Manish made the doubles semifinals as well, with Mohit Mayur.

In the ITF women's event in Portugal, Zeel Desai made the singles quarterfinals and the doubles semifinals with Cristina Ene of Romania.

The results:

$25,000 ITF men, Hong Kong
Singles (quarterfinals): Congsup Congcar (Tha) bt Sidharth Rawat 7-6(5), 6-4.

$25,000 ITF men, Cordoba, Spain
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Denis Yevseyev (Kaz) bt Adil Kalyanpur 7-5, 7-5.

$15,000 ITF men, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Singles (quarterfinals): Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Niki Poonacha 6-4, 6-3; Manish Sureshkumar bt Michal Dembek (Pol) 6-3, 6-3; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 6-4.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Mohit Mayur & Manish Sureshkumar bt Pruchya Issaro & Phongsapak Kerdiaphee (Tha) 6-3, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Guimaraes, Portugal
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Yuriko Lily Miyazaki (Jpn) bt Mihika Yadav 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Zeel Desai bt Linnea Malmqvist (Swe) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Cristina Ene (Rou) & Zeel Desai bt Fatma Al Nabhani (Oma) & Caroline Romeo (Fra) 3-6, 6-3, 10-6.