Three Indians enter ITF semis

Top seed Karan Rastogi overcame Aditya Madkekar to enter semifinals of the USD 10,000 ITF Futures men's tennis event in Dehradun on Thursday.

Rastogi defeated Madkekar 6-1, 3-6, 6-0 to enter the last four.

Also making the penultimate round were third-seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya and Prakash Amritraj.

While Sipaeya got past Brazilian Ochiai Guilherme 6-3, 6-4 Amritraj defeated Hsin-Han-Lee of Taipei 6-1, 6-4.

In the last quarter-final, Taiwanese Tsung-Hua-Yang thrashed Matthew Smith of Britain 6-1, 6-0.

In the doubles, the top seeded Indian pair of Stephen Amritraj and Mustafa Ghouse set up a summit clash with fourth-seeded Vijan Kannan and Vinod Sridhar.

While Amritraj-Ghouse beat Mithun Murali and Sriram Balaji 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, Kannan-Sridhar downed the pair of Ashutosh Singh and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya 2-6, 6-4, 7-5.