SIDHARTH RAWAT IN QUARTERFINALS IN HONG KONG

Sidharth Rawat breezed past Skyler Butts of Hong Kong 6-2, 6-2 to make the quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

Qualifier Adil Kalyanpur made the second round inn Spain, with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Sergi Perez Contri of Spain.

In Colombo, Niki Poonacha, Manish Sureshkumar, Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam and Nitin Kumar Sinha made the singles quarterfinals.

The results:

$25,000 ITF men, Hong Kong
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Chukang Wang (Chn) bt Karunuday Singh 6-3, 6-3; Sidharth Rawat bt Skyler Butts (Hkg) 6-2, 6-2.

$25,000 ITF men, Cordoba, Spain
Singles (first round): Adil Kalyanpur bt Sergi Perez Contri (Esp) 7-5, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ignacio Carou (ARg) bt Vasisht Cheruku 6-3, 7-6(3); Niki Poonacha bt Pruchya SIsaro (Tha) 6-4, 6-2; Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Vijayant Malik 4-2 (retired); Manish Sureshkumar bt Diego Matos (Bra) 6-1, 7-6(2); Michal Dembek (Pol) bt Anvit Bendre 6-2, 6-2; Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt Jirat Navasirisomboon (Tha) 6-4, 6-3; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Muzammil Murtaza (Pak) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Doubels (quarterfinals): Naoki Takeda & Shunsuke Wakita (Jpn) bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi & Niki Poonacha 2-6, 6-1, [10-6]; Jirat Navasirisomboon & Chanchai Sookton-Eng (Tha) btt Chandril Sood & Lakshit Sood 6-4, 7-6(7).

Pre-quuarterfinals: Pruchya Isaro & Phongsapak Kerolaphee (Tha) bt Anvit Bendre & SD Prajwal Dev 7-6(3), 6-4.

$15,000 ITF women, Guimares, Portugal
Singles (first round): Zeel Desai bt Valeria Bhunu (Zim) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.