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Ramkumar in last eight

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Fifth seed Ramkumar Ramanathan made the quarterfinals of the $75,000 Challenger tennis tournament with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over J.C. Aragone.

The results: $75,000 Challenger men, Winnetka, US: (pre-quarterfinals): Ramkumar Ramanathan bt JC Aragone (US) 7-5, 6-2. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Dominik Koepfer (Ger) & Alex Lawson (US) bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-6(3), 6-2.

€43,000 Challenger men, Bastad, Sweden: Doubles (quarterfinals): Sriram Balaji & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Johan Brunstrom & Andreas Siljestrom (Swe) 6-2, 7-6(5).

$25,000 ITF men, Shenzhen, China: Doubles (semifinals): Francis Casey Alcantara (Phi) & Karunuday Singh bt Chu-Huan Yi (Tpe) & Su Hao Zhong (Chn) 7-6(3), 6-3.

$25,000 ITF women, Naiman, China, (pre-quarterfinals): Karman Kaur Thandi bt Yuan Yue (Chn) 6-3, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF women, Hua Hin, Thailand: Doubles (semifinals): Nudnida Luangnam & Varunya Wongteanchai (Tha) bt Chieh-Yu Hsu (Tpe) & Dhruthi Venugopal 4-6, 6-2, 10-5.

$15,000 ITF women, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt: (first round): Kanika Vaidya bt Elina Vikhryanova (Rus) 1-6, 6-1, 7-5.

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