Hanoi (VNA) – Ly Hoang Nam of Vietnam and Yuichi Ito of Japan advanced to thequarter-finals of the doubles event in the Singapore F3 Men’s Futures tennistournament.
TheNo. 4 seeds defeated the Indian pair Manish Sureshkumar and Suraj Prabodh 6-1,6-2 on June 6.
Theywill next play Jake Delaney and Benjamin Hannestad, who got a walkover aftertheir rivals Sidharth Rawat and Dalwinder Singh retired when the score was 2-1.
Inother doubles matches, No. 2 seeds Justin Barki and Chen Ti beat Yutaro andMatsuzaki 2-6, 6-4, 12-20; Jorge Blanco Guadalupe and Bruno Mardones won 6-3,6-1 over Michael Look and Dane Propoggia.
Inthe singles category, Vietnamese Trinh Linh Giang’s campaign came to a haltafter losing 2-6, 4-6 to Marc-Andrea Huesler of Switzerland.
No.5 seed Sanam Singh from India was defeated by Nicholas Hu of the United States;No. 8 Ito beat American David Nguyen 6-7 (1), 6-2, and No. 7 Antoine Bellier ofSwitzerland trounced Hao Yuan Ng of the hosts 6-2, 6-2.-VNA