Vishnu Vardhan through to quarters

Vardhan,who had trained at the Nick Bolletieri Academy earlier in the year and returned with renewed confidence,is looking for his second win on the ITF circuit after his victory here last month.

In the quarter-finals,Vardhan will meet seventh seeded Rupesh Roy,who had a quicker stint on the court,getting through when opponent Ronak Manuja retired while trailing 7-6 (3) 2-0.

Second seeded Korean Young-Jun Kim will face sixth seed Virali Murugesan,who made short work of Sitaram Sudanwa,winning 6-1 6-3. Kim beat Shane La Porte 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2.

N Prashant was the fourth Indian into the last eight,as beat Delhi’s Ashutosh Singh 6-3 6-4. Prashant will have a tough ask in the quarter-finals,with Dutch fifth seed Peter Lucassen up ahead.

Lucassen was engaged in a long,battling encounter with Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan,but the Indian had to call it quits while trailing 6-7 (6) 6-4 4-1.

In the fourth quarter-final,eighth seed Sean Thornley will play Britain’s third seed Chris Eaton. Thornley beat Tim Bradshaw 6-1 6-2,while Eaton got the better of Korean Chung Seong-Yoon 6-2 7-5.

Wednesday’s results:1-Vishnu Vardhan bt Max Jones 6-1 3-6 6-3; 7-Rupesh Roy bt Ronak Manuja 7-6(3) 2-0 Ret; N Prashanth bt Ashutosh Singh 6-3 6-4; 5-Peter Lucassen bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-7(6) 6-4 4-1 Ret; 8-Sean Thornley bt Tim Bradshaw 6-7(6) 6-4 4-1 Ret; 3-Chris Eaton bt Chung Seong-Yoon 6-2 7-5; 6-Virali Murugesan bt Sitaram Sundanwa 6-1 6-3; 2-Kim Young-Jun beat Shane La Porte 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2; Doubles quarter-finals: 1-Vishnu Vardhan/Ashutosh Singh bt Vijayant Malik/Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy 6-2 6-4; 4-Rupesh Roy/Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan beat Mithun Murali/N Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-1 6-2; 3-Chris Eaton/Sean Thornley beat Kim Young-Jun/Lim Hyun-Soo 7-6(4)

5-7 (5); 2-Rohan Gajjar/Vivek Shokeen beat V Peranamallur-Chandrasekhar/B Vikram Reddy 6-3 7-5