In a major upset, top seed Sumit Nagal was beaten by fifth seed N Vijay Sundar Prashanth in the quarterfinals of the LMW ITF Men's International Tennis Tournament in Coimbatore. Prashant beat Nagal 6-7(3) 6-4 6-4 to enter the semifinals of the event.
In the doubles finals, N Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan will meet Anvit Bendre and N Vijay Sundar Prashanth, to be played on Friday.
Results of quarterfinals: N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (5) bt Sanam Singh [4] bt Sumit Nagal 6-7(3) 6-4 6-4; N Sriram Balaji [6] 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; Prajnesh Gunneswaran [2] bt Sidharth Rawat (IND) [8] 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5; Vishnu Vardhan [3] bt Sasi Kumar Mukund 7-6 (9), 7-5.
Doubles: Sriram Balaji/ Vishnu Vardhan [1] bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash/ Vinayak Sharma Kaza [3] 6-4, 6-4; Anvit Bendre [2]/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Fahad Mohammed/Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 7-6 (3).
