DIVIJ SHARAN, PURAV RAJA LOSE EARLY ON GRASS BEFORE WIMBLEDON
Divij Sharan inn partnership with Artem Sitak of New Zealand was beaten 6-4, 6-4 by the top seeds Juan Sebastiann Cabal and Robert Farah of Colombia in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €721,085 ATP tennis tournament in Eastborune on Monday.
In the 486,145 ATP event in Turkey, Purav Raja in partnership with Fabrice Martin of France was beaten 6-3, 6-2 by Marcelo Demoliner and Santiago Gonzalez in the doubles pre-quarterfinals.
The results:
€721,085 ATP, Eastbourne, Britain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Juan Sebastian Cabal & Robert Farah (Col) bt Artem Sitak (Nzl) & Divij Sharan 6-4, 6-4.
€486,145 ATP, Antalya, Turkey
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Marcelo Demoliner (Bra) & Santiago Gonzalez (Mex) bt Fabrice Martin (Fra) & Purav Raja 6-3, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF men, Hong Kong
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Francis Casey Alcantara (Phi) & Chu-Huan Yi (Tpe) bt Sidharth Rawat & Karunuday Singh 6-0, 6-4.
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Congsup Congcar (Tha) bt Armaan Bhatia 6-3, 6-1; First round: Armaan Bhatia bt Marvin Mang Hin Lee (Hkg) 7-5, 6-1.
$25,000 ITF men, Cordoba, Spain
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Adil Kalyanpur bt Winter Lopez (Esp) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Singles (first round): Niki Poonacha bt Kittirat Kerdlaphee (Tha) 6-3, 6-2.
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Paramveer Singh Bajwa bt Yash Chaurasia 6-0, 6-0; Mohit Mayur bt Chayanon Kaewsuto (Tha) 6-1, 3-6, 7-6(3); Anvit Bendre bt Jatin Dahiya 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-3; Gokul Suresh bt Chandril Sood 6-3, 6-3; Diego Matos (Bra) bt Amarnath Arora 6-1, 6-2.
First round: Paramveer Singh Bajwa bt Dineshkanthan Thangarajah (Sri) 5-5 (retired); Yash Chaurasia bt Tushar Madan 6-2, 6-3; Mohit Mayur bt Paras Dahiya 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Chayanon Kaewsuto (Tha) bt Naithrav Srinivasan 6-2, 6-1; Naoki Takeda (Jpn) bt Amit Beniwal 6-4, 6-1; Vasisht Cheruku bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi 6-0, 7-6(0); Yugal Bansal bt Mohit Bhardwaj 6-1, 6-2; Anvit Bendre t Vorachon Rakpuangchon (Tha) 6-1, 6-4; Jatinn Dahiya bt Alex Fairbanks (Sri) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; Chandril Sood bt Shashank Theertha 7-6(5), 6-2; Gokul Suresh bt Tonkla Mulada (Tha) 6-2, 6-3; Chanchai Sookton-Eng (Tha) bt Vishvender Singh Chankhar 6-1, 6-0; Amarnath Arora bt Roy Hobbs (Sgp) 0-6, 6-3, 7-5; Diego Matos (Bra) bt PC Vignesh 6-4, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF women, Hammamet, Tunisia
Qualifying singles (first round): Marie Mettraux (Sui) bt Niditra Rajmohan 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF women, Curtea de Arges, Romania
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Alexandra Iordache (Rou) bt Isha Budwal 6-2, 6-3; Second round: Isha Budwal bt Tania Munteanu (Rou) 6-3, 6-4; First round: Isha Budwal bt Marina Timofeeva (Rus) 6-1, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF women, Guinares, Portugal
Qualifying singles (second round): Mihika Yadav bt Sofia Smagina (Rus) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; Paulina Jastrzebska (Pol) bt Sathwika Sama 6-3, 6-2; First round: Sathwika Sama bt Rita Pedroso (Por) 6-3, 6-2.
