New Delhi: Bidding for his fourth ATP
Challenger title of the season, Harsh Mankad has reached the
quarter-finals of the doubles event of the Champaign event in
the United States along with his partner Treat Conard Huey.
The second seeded Indo-Philippines pair scored a 6-4, 6-3
win over American Nicholas Monroe and Izak Van der Merwe of
South Africa in the first round of the USD 50,000 hard court
event.
However, Purav Raja and his British partner Richard
Bloomfield crashed out after suffering a 0-6, 6-7(2) defeat
against Dominic Inglot of Britain and American Rylan Rizza.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 18:22