Tara Iyer advanced to the quarterfinals with a smooth victory while the rest of the Indians crashed out in both men's and women's singles at the Asian Tennis Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Wednesday.
The sixth seeded Tara beat home contender Nigora Sirodjiddinova 6-2, 6-1 to set up a clash against Hong Kong's Ling Zhang who beat Taipei's Chin-Wei Chan 6-1, 6-2.
Tara later teamed up with Rushmi Chakravarthi to advance to the semifinals of the women's doubles event.
The third seeded Indian pair crushed the Uzbek duo of Sariya Khyrova and Nigora Sirodjiddinova 6-1, 6-1 to book a last-four berth against top seeds Chin-Wei Chan and I-Hsun Hwang.
However, it was the end of the road for the rest of the Indians in the singles competition. Rushmi, Karan Rastogi and Aditya Madkekar lost in the second round.
Rushmi went down to Uzbek wildcard Albina Khaibulina 6-2, 7-5.
In the men's competition, third seeded Karan was upstaged 6-3, 4-6, 6-7 (5) by Japan's Tatsuma Ito. Eighth seed Madkekar was shocked by Uzbek wildcard Vaja Uzakov 6-3, 3-6, 5-7.
Madkekar also had a disappointing day in the doubles competition as he and his Pakistani partner Aqeel Khan were ousted 6-3, 3-6, 10-12 by second seeds Ashutosh Singh and Vivek Shokeen.
Ashutosh and Vivek will next take on fourth seeds Hsin-Han Lee and Tsung-Hua Yang.
