ARJUN KADHE MAKES DOUBLES QUARTERFINALS IN $125K CHENGDU CHALLENGER

Arjun Kadhe was beaten 6-2, 6-4 by qualifier Miliaan Niesten of the Netherlands in the first round of the $125,000 Challenger in Chengdu, China, on Tuesday.

However, Arjun managed to cruise into the doubles quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-4 victory in partnership with Hiroki Moriya of Japan.

The results:

$125,000 Challenger men, Chengdu, China
Singles (first round): Miliaan Niesten (Ned) bt Arjun Kadhe 6-2, 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Hiroki Moriya (Jpn) & Arjun Kadhe bt Alexander Bublik (Kaz) & Alexander Pavlioutchenkov (Rus) 6-1, 6-4.

$25,000 ITF men, Essen, Germany
Qualifying singles (third and final round): James Frawley (Aus) bt Arnav Alok Goel 6-4, 4-0 (retired); Tejas Chaukulkar bt Nicholas Horton (Aus) 6-3, 7-6(4).

$15,000 ITF men, Jakarta, Indonesia
Singles (first round): Aaron Schmid (Sui) bt Jayesh Pungiya 7-6(16), 6-2; Aryan Goveas bt Hao Yuan Ng (Sgp) 6-2, 7-5.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): SD Prajwal Dev & Mohit Mayur bt Kunal Anand & Anvit Bendre 2-6, 7-5, [10-1]; Coourtney John Lock (Zim) & Aryan Goveas bt Lance-Pierre Du Toit (RSA) & Jayesh Pungliya 7-5, 6-4.

Qualifying singles (third and final round): Michail Pervolarakis (Cyp) bt Niitn Kumar Sinha 6-3, 6-1; Mohit Mayur bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-0, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Caldas Da Rainha, Portugal
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Michel Vernier (Chi) bt Terence Das 7-6(2), 6-2.