Prakash-James in quarters of Serbia Challenger event

New Delhi: Prakash Amritraj and James Cerretani came from behind to beat Karol Beck and Jiri Krkoska and book a quarter-final berth in the doubles event of the ATP Challenger event in Belgrade, Serbia.

The fourth-seed Indo-American pair beat the Slovakian-Czech duo 5-7, 6-3, 10-7 in the opening round. Prakash and James will take on Julian Reister of Germany and Grega Zemlja of Slovenia in the last-eight stage match of the euro 1,065,000 ATP tournament.Another Indian, Somdev Devvarman is up against local wild card Filip Krajinovic in the singles event. Meanwhile, Vishnu Vardhan has advanced to the singles pre-quarterfinals of the USD 15,000 ITF Futures tournament in Australia. The eight seeded Indian beat local qualifier Michael Look 6-3, 6-4 in the first round.He will next take on another local hope Matt Reid in the next round. Vardhan has also made the doubles semifinals along with partner Marcus Daniell of New Zealand. PTI