ITF Futures Day 3

Rastogi moves into quarterfinals of $15000 Deccan Gymkhana – AITAMen’s Tennis Futures
Pune, October 7: Former Davis Cupper Karan Rastogi continued hiswinning run making it to the quarterfinals of the $15000 DeccanGymkhana-AITA Men’s ITF Tennis Futures organized by the DeccanGymkhana Club at their tennis courts. All the other seeds also movedinto the last eight of the event.
In the event supported by Bilcare Foundation Wildcard Rastogi playedsolid tennis to outplay Mithun Murali (Ind) 6-3,6-3 to make it thefirst quarterfinal in the men’s event after an 16 month lay off ,Rastogi will now clash with top seeded Kiwi Davis Cupper Daniel KingTurner who hit out P.C Vignesh 6-4,6-1
Fourth seeded Kim Young Jun of Korea outplayed Vinod Shridhar 6-3,6-2to set up a clash with eighth seeded Rupesh Roy who made heavy weatherof his match against Yannick Nelord winning 6-3,7-5.
Sixth seeded Rohan Gajjar scored an easy 6-3, 6-3 win over FrenchmanGilles de Sousa and will take on Vijayant Malik who stopped the run ofPurav Raja 6-4, 6-4. Second seeded German Alexander Satschko thrashedChristopher Marquis 6-1,6-0 and will now meet fifth seeded RanjeetVirali Murugesan who disposed off S. Narayanswami 6-3,6-0
The local interest in the doubles event remained with Akash Wagh whoteamed with Abhijeet Tiwari putting out Sood Brothers Chandril andLakshit 6-4,6-4 to enter the semifinals. While in another encounterMithun Murali teaming up with N Vijay Sundar scraped past the pair ofNitten Kirrtane and Aditya Madkekar 7-5,3-6,10-4
The quarterfinals of singles and the Doubles semifinals will be played tomorrow.
Men’s Singles (Second Round)
S.1 Daniel King Turner(Nzl) bt P.C Vignesh 6-4,6-1Karan Rastogi (Ind) bt Mithun Murali (Ind) 6-3,6-3S.4 Kim Young Jun (Kor) bt Vinod Shridhar(Ind) 6-3,6-2S.8 Rupesh Roy bt Yannick Nelord (Ind) 6-3,7-5S.6 Rohan Gajjar bt Gilles de Sousa (Fra) 6-3, 6-3Vijayant Malik bt Purav Raja 6-4,6-4S.5 Ranjeet Virali Murugesan bt S. Narayanswami 6-3,6-0 S.2 Alexander Satschko (Ger) bt Christopher Marquis 6-1,6-0
Doubles (Quarterfinals)(S.1)Rohan Gajjar/Purav Raja bt Yannick Nelord/ Vikram Reddy 6-1,6-4Abhijeet Tiwari / Akash Wagh bt Chandril Sood/ Lakshit Sood 6-4,6-4Mithun Murali / N Vijay Sundar bt Nitten Kirrtane / Aditya Madkekar 7-5,3-6,10-4(S2). Divij Sharan /Vishnu Vardhan bt Bhishma Desai / Krishik Divakar 6-3,6-0

Mukund Joshi