ITF Futures: Prashanth ousts Rastogi

April 29th, 2011 - 12:17 am ICT by IANS  

Chennai, April 28 (IANS) Second seed Vishnu Varadhan and unseeded Vijay Sundar Prashanth entered the men’s singles semifinals of the ITF Futures men’s tennis tournament here Thursday.

Prashanth caused a major upset when he ousted top seed Karan Rastogi 6-4, 6-3 while Vardhan overcame Ranjeet Virali Murugesan 7-5, 6-2, in the quarterfinals.

In the two other quarterfinal matches, fourth seeded Julien Dubail (BEL) beat Vivek Shokeen (IND) 6-3, 6-4 while Patrik Rosenholm (SWE) received a walk-over from Fornell Mesters (Spain).

Other results (Doubles):

Semifinals: Vijay Sundar Prasanth/Arun Prakash Rajagopaln bt Junn Mitsuhash(JPN)/Christopher Rungkat (INA) 7-5, 6-4; Sie Elbert (INA)/Perakiat Siriluethai Wattana (Thai) bt Mark-Alexander Kepler (GER)/Amrit Narasimhan (USA) 6-4, 6-1.

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