Divij sharan makes doubles reaches second round in Shanghai masters

Wimbledon quarterfinalists, Divij Sharan and Artem Sitak of New Zealand beat wild card entrants Mao-Xin Gong and Ze Zhang to set up a second round against third seeds Marcelo Melo of Brazil and Lukasz Kubot of Poland, in the ATP Masters tennis tournament in Shanghai.

In the $750,000 WTA event in Tianjin, Prarthana Thombare in partnership with Jacqueline Cako of the US beat Chinese wild cards Guo Hanyu and Zhu LIn 7-5, 6-3 in the doubles pre-quarterfinals.

The results:

$9,219,970 ATP, Shanghai, China
Doubles (first round): Artem Sitak (Nzl) & Divij Sharan bt Mao-Xin Gong & Ze Zhang (Chn) 6-3, 6-4.

$750,000 WTA, Tianjin, China
Doubles (first round): Jacqueline Cako (US) & Prarthana Thombare bt Guo Hanyu & Zhu LIn (Chn) 7-5, 6-3.

$75,000 Challenger men, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Qualifying singles (second round); Frederico Ferreira Silva (Por) bt Sriram Balaji 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(2). Firist round: Sriram Balaji bt Pavel Kotov (Rus) 7-5, 6-4; Rubin Statham (Nzl) bt Sumit Nagal 3-6, 6-1, 6-1; Mathias Bourgue (Fra) bt Sasi Kumar Mukund 7-6(3), 6-2.

$25,000 ITF men, Lagos, Nigheria
Singles (first round): Niki Poonacha bt Sylvester Emmanuel (Nor) 6-1, 6-4; Shahbaaz Khan bt Courtney John Lock (Zim) 7-6(6), 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Niki Poonacha & Shahbaaz Khan bt Paul Emmanuel & Emmanuel Idoko (Ngr) 6-3, 7-5; Skander Mansouri (Tun) & Arthur Rinderknech (Fra) bt Tyler Lu (US) & Aryan Goveas 6-3, 6-4.

Qualifying singles (third and final round): Shahbaaz Khan bt Abdul-Mumin Babalola (Ngr) 6-3, 6-2; First round: Shahbaaz Khan bt Emmanuel Chinedu Dim (Ngr) 6-0, 6-0.

$15,000 ITF men, Hua Hin, Thailand
Singles (first round): Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Pruchya Isaro (Tha) 6-4, 6-2.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Thanapat Chanta & Vorachon Rakpuangchon (Tha) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha & Manish Sureshkumar 7-5, 7-5; Ajeet Rai (Nzl) & Karunuday Singh bt Adrian Andrezejczuk & Michal Dembek (Pol) 6-4, 6-3.

Qualifying singles (first round): Nawakarn Khunjan (Tha) bt Ankit Chopra 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Akash Nandwal bt Mingyuan Yang (Chn) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Tonkla Mulada (Tha) bt Raghav Jaisinghani 7-5, 5-7, 7-6(12); Aaditya Tewari bt Wellington Bastos (Bra) 6-0, 6-2; Stephen Kaldawi (Aus) bt Medhir Goyal 6-1, 6-2.Nitwat Jityaem (Tha) bt Apuroop Patlolla Reddy 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Qualifying singles (second round): Aliaksandr Liaonenka (Blr) bt Sagar Ahuja 7-6(4), 6-3; First round: Kevin Portmann (Ita) bt Shane Biddaiah 7-6(9), 6-4; Sagar Ahuja bt Aliaksandr Sasnouski (Blr) 6-2, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF men, Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany
Qualifying singles (first round): Dominik Recek (Cze) bt Arnav Alok Goel 6-3, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, Tunisia
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Errol Smith (US) bt Rakshit Rishi 6-0, 6-1.
Second round: Rakshit Rishi bt Mounir Ferchichi (Tun) 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-1; Albert Roglan (Esp) bt Himansu Sagar 6-0, 6-2; Jakob Groener (Nor) bt Alex Solanki 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.
First round: Rakshit Rishi bt Sami Achour (Tun) 6-0, 6-1; Himansu Sagar bt Maxime Leclercq (Fra) 6-1, 6-0; Alex Solanki bt Talel Raboudi (Tun) 6-0, 6-0; Adam Nagoudi (Tun) bt Yash Vardhan Singh 6-1, 6-2.

$25,000 ITF women, Lagos, Nigeria
Singles (first round): Riya Bhatia bt Claudia Copoola (Ita) 6-2, 7-6(4).

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ange Oby Kajuru (Jpn) & Adesuwa Osabuohien (US) bt Emerald Able (US) & Jennifer Luikham 6-4, 6-2.

Qualifying singles (second and final round): Jennifer Luikham bt Sabath Ibrahim (Ngr) 6-3, 6-0.

$15,000 ITF women, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Jemmy Duerst (Sui) bt Nikita Bishnoi 6-1, 6-2; Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Aqustina Chlpac (Arg) 7-5, 7-5.