Ramkumar Ramanathan sustained his dream run as he beat former World No. 25 Vasek Pospisil of Canada 7-5, 6-2 to make his maiden semifinals of the $623,710 ATP tennis tournament on grass here.
The 23-year-old will play USA’s Tim Smyczek in the semifinals.
The last Indian to reach a singles semifinal at an ATP World Tour event was Somdev Devvarman at Johannesburg in 2011.
In the doubles event, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan continued with his superb performance as he and Austin Krajicek of the US beat Leander Paes and Jamie Cerretani to make the semifinals.
The results: $623,710 ATP, Newport, USA: Quarterfinals: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Vasek Pospisil (Can) 7-5, 6-2. Doubles: Austin Krajicek (USA) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Jamie Cerretani (USA) & Leander Paes 6-3, 7-6(3); Jonathan Erlich (Isr) & Artem Sitak (Nzl) bt Ken Skupski (GBR) & Purav Raja 4-6, 6-3, [10-8]; Jackson Withrow (USA) & Divij Sharan bt Matthew Ebden (Aus) & Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) 7-6(4), 6-3.
$125,000 Challenger, Astana, Kazakhstan: Quarterfinals: Daniel Brands (Ger) bt Saketh Myneni 6-4, 6-7(10), 7-5. Doubles: Semifinals: Denis Yevseyev (Kaz) & Arjun Kadhe bt Timur Khabibulin (Kaz) & Volodoymyr Uzhylovskyi (Ukr) 2-6, 6-1, [10-5].
$25,000 ITF men, Kunshan, China: Quarterfinals: Runhao Hua (Chn) bt Aryan Goveas 5-2 (retired).
$25,000 ITF women, Nonthaburi, Thailand: Quarterfinals: Hiroko Kuwata (Jpn) bt Rutuja Bhosale 6-2, 6-1. Doubles: Final: Rutuja Bhosale & Pranjala Yadlapalli bt Pei Hsuan Chen & Fang-Hsien Wu (Tpe) 7-5, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF women, Jakarta: Quarterfinals: Zeel Desai bt Ayaka Okuno (Jpn) 6-2, 7-6(3); Mahak Jain bt Kanika Vaidya 6-0, 4-4 (retired). Doubles: Semifinals: Mana Ayukawa (Jpn) & Zeel Desai bt Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) & YeXin Ma (Chn) 7-6(8), 7-5.