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Uppal, Stephen Amritraj lose
June 11, 2003 21:22 IST
Davis Cupper Vishal Uppal and Stephen Amritraj bowed�out of the $5000 ITF men's Satellite tennis tournament (second leg) at the CLTA Complex in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
Takeshi Itho of Japan defeated Uppal 6-1, 7-6 (8/6) while Asian Games doubles bronze medallist Mustafa Ghouse accounted for Stephen Amritraj, son of former India doubles ace Anand Amritraj, in�second round matches.
Another Amritraj, however, is still in the hunt for the title.�Second seed Prakash, son of Indian tennis legend Vijay Amritraj, progressed�to the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over�Jaco T Matthew.
Fourth Ajay Ramaswami ousted Malaysian Yew Ming Si 6-3, 6-4 and Vijay Kannan packed off Hayato Furukawa of Japan 7-6 (7/4), 6-2.
Results (Indians unless specified):
Singles (second�round): Takeshi Itho (JPN) bt Vishal Uppal 6-1, 7-6 (6); 4-Ajay Ramaswami bt Yew-Ming Si (MAS) 6-3,6-4; 2-Prakash Amritraj bt Jaco Mathew 6-4,6-2; Mustafa Ghouse bt Stephen Amritraj (USA) 6-2, 3-6, 7-5; 8-Eliran Dooyev (ISR) bt Chatwinder Singh 6-2, 6-2; Vijay Kannan bt Hayato Furukawa (JPN) 7-6 (4), 6-2; Febi Widhiyanto (INA) bt Tomer Suissa (ISR) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; 6-Vinod Sridhar bt Prima Simpatiaji (INA) 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.
First�round: Tomer Suissa (ISR) bt Kedar Tembe 6-2, 6-2; Prima Simpatiaji (INA) bt Rohan Gujjar 6-2, 7-6(2); Hayato Furukawa (JPN) bt� Dong-Whee Choi (Kor) 6-3, 6-1; 8-Eliran Dooyev (ISR) bt Saurabh Singh 6-1, 7-5.
Doubles (first�round): Manoj Mahadevan and Rishi Dridhar bt�Daniel Kiernam and Ajay Ramaswami 6-1, 3-3 (retd).
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