PURAV RAJA MAKES SEMIFINALS IN LYON, WITH FABRICE MARTIN

Purav Raja sustained his good work and made the doubles semifinals with Fabrice Margin of France, as the du beat third seeds Julio Peralta of Chile and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina 7-5, 6-4 in the ATP tennis tournament in Lyon on Thursday.

However, Rohan Bopanna, seeded second with Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France bowed out, beaten 10-7 in the super tie-break by Roman Jebavy and Matwe Middelkoop.

In the ITF women’s tournament in Spain, Pranjala Yadlapalli made the doubles final in partnership with Raluca Georgiana Serban of Romania.

The results:

€ 561,345 ATP, Lyon, France
Doubles (quarterfinals): Fabrice Martin (Fra) & Purav Raja bt Julio Peralta (Chi) & Horacio Zeballos (Arg) 6-2, 6-7(3), [10-5];Roman Jebavy (Cze) & Matwe Middelkoop (Ned) bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fra) & Rohan Bopanna 5-7, 6-4, [10-7].

€ 85,000 Challenger, Loughborough, Britain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Robert Galloway & Nathaniel Lammons (US) bt Matt Reid (Aus) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-7(7), 6-2, [10-8].

$15,000 ITF men, Kampala, Uganda
Sinlgges (quarterfinals): Tyler Lu (US) bt Kunal Anand 6-4, 6-7(0), 7-5; David Perez Sanz (Esp) bt SD Prajwal Dev 6-4, 7-5.

$15,000 ITF women, Les Franqueses del Valles, Spain
Doubles (semifinals): Raluca Georgiana Serban (Rou) & Pranjala Yadlapalli bt Polina Leykina (Rus) & Isabella Shinikova (Bul) 6-0, 6-3 ; Quarterfinals: Raluca Georgiana Serban & Pranjala Yadlapalli bt Ana Bianca Mihaila (Rou) & Aymet Uzcategui (Ven) 6-1, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey
Doubles (quarterfinals): Anri Nagata (Jpn) & Jennifer Luikham bt Ni Ma Zhuoma & You Mi Zhuoma (Chn) 7-5, 6-3.