New Delhi: Somdev Devvarman and Purav Raja stunned third seeds Kaden Hensel and Adam Hubble in straight
sets to breeze into the doubles semifinals of the USD 50,000
ATP Challenger event in Knoxville, United States.
The unseeded Indian pair scored an easy 6-3 6-1 win over
the Australian duo in the quarterfinal of the hard court
event.
Also making the last-four stage were second seeds Harsh
Mankad and Filipino Treat Conard Huey, who rallied to beat
Grigor Dimitrov and Fillip Prpic 6-7(5) 6-1 10-4 in their
quarter-final match.
India's challenge in the singles event had ended with the
defeats of Somdev and Prakash Amritraj.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, November 13, 2009, 18:10