Digvijay on method to the quarterfinals.| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Davis Cupper and prime seed Digvijay Pratap Singh needed to battle his well past qualifier Shivank Bhatnagar 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-3 within the pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the Ahmedabad City Tennis Foundation courts in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.

In the quarterfinals, Digvijay will probably be up towards National championship finalist Karan Singh.

Qualifier Raghav Jaisinghani beat fifth seed Rishab Agarwal 5-7, 6-2, 7-6(2) and can problem Sidharth Rawat within the quarterfinals.

The outcomes:

Singles, pre-quarterfinals: Digvijay Pratap Singh bt Shivank Bhatnagar 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-3; Karan Singh bt Luke Sorensen (Aus) 6-0, 6-1; S.D. Prajwal Dev bt Siddhant Banthia 6-3, 6-1; Ishaque Eqbal bt Mattias Southcombe (GBR) 6-0, 6-2; Raghav Jaisinghani bt Rishab Agarwal 5-7, 6-2, 7-6(2); Sidharth Rawat bt Manish Sureshkumar 6-2, 6-4; Stijn Pel (Ned) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-3, 3-1 (retired); Florent Bax (Fra) bt Rohan Mehra 6-3, 7-5.

Doubles (quarterfinals): S.D. Prajwal Dev & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Adil Kalyanpur & Wooobin Shin (Kor) 6-4, 6-4; Sai Karteek Reddy & Manish Sureshkumar bt Ishaque Eqbal & Faisal Qamar 7-6(6), 6-4; Thijmen Loof & Stijn Pel (Ned) bt Oges Theyjo & Suraj Prabodh 6-2, 7-6(5); Siddhant Banthia & Vishnu Vardhan bt Digvijay Pratap Singh & Karan Singh 6-3, 1-0 (retired).