Both, the singles round of sixteen and doubles quarter finals were again dominated by Indian players as three Indians made it comfortably to singles quarter finals in ITF world tour M25K Bhopal, that too in straight sets. Aryan Shah bludgeoned his way against his opponent T. Loof (NED) to take a 5-0 lead in the first set and was looking to make it 6-0 comfortably, when his opponent gave way and retired from the match. Manish Sureshkumar beat Van Wyk (RSA) in straight sets 6-1, 7-6. Though the second set went to a tie break, Sureshkumar was always in the control. S Vishwakarma played highly aggressive tennis right from the beginning to subdue Matt Hulme (AUS) 6-4, 6-2. All three made it appear like they were continuing from where they had left it yesterday in the round of 32.

Top seed Oliver Crawford muscled his way to the quarter finals along with 2nd seed Dominik Palan(CZE), 3rd seed Bogdon Bobrov (RUS) and fourth seeds Eric Vanshelboim (UKR). D. Pichler (AUT) and the three Indians complete the quarter finals set up.

Indian pair of Vishnuvardhan and G Sai Reddy after being down in the first set turned things around to make it to the semifinals in three sets 2-6, 6-3, 13-11. In the second quarter final Ishaq Eqbal and Faisal Qamar defeated their opponents in straight sets 6-2, 6-4. Another Indian pair of Aryan Shah and Kabir Hans could not make it to the semi final. Eric Vanshelboim (UKR) paired with N. Bybel (USA) had easy two set win over their opponents.

Today’s results have raised the hope of good Indian presence in semi finals and finals of both singles and doubles matches. Singles matches of all the Indian players are listed first for tomorrow at 10:00 am on court numbers one, two and three. Aryan Shah will take on top seed Oliver Crawford on court no-one at 10:00. While the two Indian pairs will meet at court no two as the second game.to decide their entry to the doubles final.