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Amritraj in 2nd round of Granby Challenger

Source:PTI
July 25, 2007 15:56 IST

Prakash Amritraj overwhelmed French sixth seed Nicolas Tourte 6-2, 6-3 to enter the second round of the US $50,000 Challenger Series tournament in Granby, Canada.

Amritraj, who reached the semi-finals of the Comerica Challenger in California last week, will next take on Canadian qualifier Milan Pokrajac in the hard court event.

Meanwhile, at the US $25,000 Nottingham Challenger, sixth seed Rohan Bopanna beat British wildcard David Rice 6-4, 6-1 to enter the second round.

Bopanna is now up against German Lars Burgsmuller.

The Indian made a good start to his doubles campaign as well. He and Pakistani Aisam-Ul Haq Qureshi beat Xavier Audouy (France) and Simon Rea (New Zealand) 7-6(4), 6-2 in the first round.

The third seeded Indo-Pakistani pair will play the French duo of Olivier Charrion and Thomas Oger in the quarter-finals of the grass court event.

Source: PTI
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