Former top-10 player Mikhail Youzhny scored a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Prajnesh Gunneswaran in the second round of the $75,000 Challenger tennis tournament here on Thursday.
In a similar Challenger in Charlottesville, USA, top seeds Leander Paes and Purav Raja got past Christopher Eubanks and Mackenzie McDonald (USA) 6-4, 6-0 in the first round.
Other results: $75,000 Challenger, Shenzhen: Quarterfinals: Sriram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan bt Teymuraz Gabashvili (Rus) & Huberkt Hurkacz (Pol) 6-4, 6-4.
$15,000 Futures: Kuala Lumpur: Second round: Suraj Prabodh bt Raphael Baltensperger (Sui) 7-5, 7-6(5). Doubles quarterfinals: Yuichi Ito (Jpn) & Nuttanon Kadchapanan (Tha) bt Kunal Anand & Sidharth Rawat 6-1, 6-3; Borna Gojo (Cro) & Jonathan Gray (GBr) bt Denis Yevseyev (Kaz) & Karunuday Singh 6-3, 6-4.