Third seed Sumit Nagal packed away two qualifiers, by dropping three games in all, to make the quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament in Bangkok. He made the doubles semifinals as well with Mick Lescure of France.
The results:
$75,000 + H ITF women, Aichi, Japan: Singles (first round): Stefanie Voegele (Sui) bt Ankita Raina 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Akiko Omae (Jpn) & Peangtarn Plipuech (Tha) w/o. Elise Mertens (Bel) & Ankita Raina.
$40,000 Challenger men, Toyota, Japan: Doubles: Pre-quuarterfinal): Sanchai Ratiwatana & Sonchat Ratiwatana bt John Paul Fruttero (US) & Purav Raja 7-5, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF men, Bangkok: Singles: Pre-quarterfinals: Sumit Nagal Maksim Malyshev (Rus) 6-1, 6-0; First round: Sumit Nagal bt Punn Bodhidatta (Tha) 6-0, 6-2.
Doubles: Quarterfinals: Mick Lescure (Fra) & Sumit Nagal bt Punn Bodhidatta & Suthinan Tanthaseraneewat (Tha) 6-1, 6-3; Pre-quarterfinals: Mick Lescure & Sumit Nagal bt Kazuma Kawachi & Issei Okamura (Jpn) 6-3, 4-6, 10-3.
$10,000 ITF men, Meshref, Kuwait: Singles: First round: Ali Ghareeb (Kuw) bt Sagar Ahuja 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Alexander Igoshin & Evgeny Karlovskiy (Rus) bt Sagar Auja & Arpit Sharma 6-3, 6-0.