Purav and Martin bow out

Second seeds Purav Raja and Fabrice Martin (France) were beaten 6-3, 7-5 by Guillermo Duran and Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina in the quarterfinals of the €106,000 Challenger tennis tournament on Wednesday.

Other results: €85,000 Challenger, Heilbronn, Germany: Pre-quarterfinals: Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (Aut) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Dustin Brown (Ger) & Darian King (Bar) 6-3, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF tournament, Kampala, Uganda: Pre-quarterfinals: Ivan Nedelko (Rus) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 7-6(3), 6-4; Hassan Ndayishimiye (Bdi) bt Kunal Anand 6-2, 6-4; Dhruv Sunish bt Ajeet Rai (NZ) 7-6(5), 6-1; Tyler Lu (USA) bt S.D. Prajwal Dev 6-2, 7-5; Takanyi Garanganga (Zim) bt V.M. Ranjeet 6-2, 4-6, 6-1.

Doubles: Quarterfinals: Jordi Munoz-Abreu (Ven) & David Perez Sanz (Esp) bt Jayesh Pungliya & Dhruv Sunish 6-4, 6-0; Tommaso Gabriel & Marco Miceli (Ita) bt Giovani Samaha (Lbn) & Kunal Anand 7-5, 6-2; Anton Chekhov (Rus) & Matt Seeberger (USA) bt Kaza Vinayak & Ranjeet 6-2, 7-6(3); Lu & Goran Markovic (Srb) bt Vasisht Cheruku & Prajwal 6-3, 6-3.

$25,000 ITF women, Wuhan, China: Pre-quarterfinals: Rutuja Bhosale bt Fang Ying Xun (Chn) 6-2, 7-5.

Doubles: Quarterfinals: Emily Webley-Smith (GBr) & Rutuja Bhosale bt Alison Bai (Aus) & Jia-Jing Lu (Chn) 6-4, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF women, Tiberias, Slovakia: Quarterfinals: Madeleine Kobelt (USA) & Riya Bhatia bt Madison Bourguignon & Aimee Tarun (USA) 6-2, 6-4.