New Port (USA), July 12 : India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan and his partner J Smith of New Zealand defeated Hans Hach Veerdugo of Mexico and Hunter Reese of USA 6-3, 6-4 in men’s doubles pre-quarterfinal in the $ 665,330 Infosys Hall of Fame Open.

In the singles final qualifying round, however, Ramkumar suffered defeat at the hands of wild card William Blumber 3-6 7-5 6-4 on Monday.

On the other hand, seventh seed Arthur Fils of France defeated Sumit Nagal 6-1 6-4 in the singles qualifying round of the Van Mossel KIA Dutch Open in Amersfoort.

In the $ 53,120 Georgia’s Rome Challenge (USA) second seed Michail Pervolarakis defeated seventh seed Mukund Sasikumar 6-3 4-6 6-3 in second round qualifying match.(UNI)