Divij Sharan and Artem Sitak of New Zealand lost 7-6(2), 6-4 to second seeds Luke Bambridge of Britain and Ben Mclachlan of Japan in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $1,000,000 ATP tennis tournament here on Wednesday. Divij shared $4,900 with the Kiwi.
In the Challenger in Buenos Aires, seventh seed Sumit Nagal beat Pedro Sakamoto of Brazil 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-3 in the second round and will play Jose Hernandez-Fernandez of Dominic Republic in the pre-quarterfinals.
In the Challenger in France, seventh-seeded Gregoire Barrere of France downed Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-5, 6-4 in the second round. Ramkumar collected five ATP points and €1,320.
The results:
$1,000,000 ATP, Zhuhai: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Luke Bambridge (GBR) & Ben Mcachlan (Jpn) bt Artem Sitak (Nzl) & Divij Sharan 7-6(2), 6-4.
€137,560 Challenger, Orlean: Second round: Gregoire Barrere (Fra) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-5, 6-4.
€54,160 Challenger, Buenos Aires: Second round: Sumit Nagal bt Pedro Sakamoto (Bra) 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF men, Oliveira De Azemeis, Portugal: First round: Yannick Mertens (Bel) bt Terence Das 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Nanchang, China: First round: Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Xian Yao Zhou (Chn) 6-4, 6-1; Ray Ho (Tpe) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Vasisht Cheruku & P.C. Vignesh bt Taisei Ichikawa & Seita Watanabe (Jpn) 6-4, 6-7(4), [10-5]; Chukang Wang & Zihao Xia (Chn) bt Pol Wattanakul (Tha) & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF men, Cairo: First round: Dhruv Sunish bt Joshua Luck (RSA) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF women, Anning, China: First round: Sakura Hondo (Jpn) bt Soha Sadiq 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF women, Cairo: First round: Anastasia zolotareva (Rus) bt Saumya Vig 6-1, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF women, Johannesburg: First round: Stephanie Kent (USA) bt Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy 7-6(3), 6-2; Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Nicole Viljoen (RSA) 6-4, 6-0.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Maria Vittoria Viviani (Ita) & Zeel Desai bt Amonette Theron & Nicole Viljoen (RSA) 6-2, 6-2; Demi Tran (Ned) & Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Vivian Mayumi Toma (Bra) & Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy 6-2, 6-2; Marne Dercksen & Isabella Weatherhead (RSA) bt Shannon Cox (RSA) & Snehal Mane 6-1, 2-6, [14-12].
