CHANDIGARH, AUG 7 : Ramkumar Ramanathan of India, partnering David Pel of Netherlands moved into doubles quarter-final of the $ 10,000 ITF Men’s Futures Tennis Tournament (Turkey F31 Futures) being played in Izmir (Turkey).
In the pre-quarter-final match Ramkumar-David combination defeated Italian pair of Damiano Di Ienno and Lorenzo Frigerio 7-5, 7-6 (5). The winners are now pitted against fourth seeded Vaja Uzakov (Uzb) / Denis Yevseyev (Kazin the quarter-final encounter.
Ramkumar’s campaign in the singles was terminated by Tucker Vorster of South Africa who defeated the Indian by 7-6 (3), 6-3.