Vijay and Vishnu in doubles semifinals in shanghai challenger

Fourth seeds Vijay Sundar Prashanth and Vishnu Vardhan sailed into the doubles semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over the Canadians Filip Peliwo and Brayden Schnur in the $75,000 Challenger tennis tournament in China, on Wednesday.

In the Challenger in Istanbul, Purav Raja, seeded No.1 in partnership with Rameez Junaid of Australia made the quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-3 victory,

The results:

$75,000 Challenger men, Shanghai, China
Doubles (quarterfinals): Vijay Sundar Prashanth & Vishnu Vardhan bt Filip Peliwo & Brayden Schnur (Can) 6-3, 6-4.

$75,000 Challenger men, Istanbul, Turkey
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rameez Junaid (Aus) & Purav Raja bt Aleksandre Metreveli (Geo) & Lucas Miedler (Aut) 6-2, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Jordan Correia (Bra) bt Jayesh Pungliya 6-1, 6-2; Francesco Cano (Ita) bt Aryan Goveas 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Jeff Guerrero (Mex) 6-3, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia
Doubles (pr-quarterfinals): Andrina Peer & Joanne Zuger (Sui) bt Likhitha Kalava & Sathwika Sama 7-5, 6-1; Paula Arias Manjon & Andrea Lazaro Garcia (Esp) bt Bhuvana Kalva & Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy 7-6(4), 7-5.

$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Julyette Maria Josephine Steur (Ger) bt Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi 6-2, 6-2.