The Indian challenge in the men's singles of the $6250 MSLTA-ITF Satellite tennis tournament ended with the ouster of second seed Prakash Amritraj and unseeded Rohan Gajjar in�the semi-finals on Friday.

Former tennis ace Vijay Amritraj's son Prakash, who holds�American citizenship but represents India in�International Tennis Federation�tournaments, was ousted by English qualfier Daniel Kiernan 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) in an�hour and 50 minutes.

Mumbai lad�Gajjar, who had accounted for top seed�Sunil Kumar Sipaeya in the quarter-finals, fought well in the first set but lost the second�tamely�as he went down to unseeded Prima Simpatiaji of Indonesia.

Simpatiaji won 7-6 (7/4), 6-1 in an�hour and 40 minutes.

In the men's doubles semi-finals,�Manoj Mahadevan and�Rishi Sridhar of India got the better of�Saurabh Kohli and� Rohan Gajjar, also of India,�6-4, 0-6, 6-4, while Daniel Kiernan of Great Britain and�Ajay Ramaswamy of India�beat� Hendri-Susilo Pramono and Febi Widhiyanto (Indonesia) 6-4, 6-3.

Photograph: JEWELLA C MIRANDA

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