In Chennai OPEN ATP Challenger, Sasikumar Mukund has advanced to the singles quarterfinals. Mukund, the wild card Indian player reached the final event of the game, defeating Tunisia's Moez Exhargui 7-6,6-3 to set up a clash against third seed Dalibor Svrcina the Czech Republic. The Czech player won the second-round clash against Evgeny Donskeoy 6-2,0-6,6-2. The singles draw lost two seeds with fourth-seeded Ugo Blanchet of France losing to Chinese Taipei's Hsin Tseng 0-6,6-4,2-6.
In the doubles draw, two Indian teams advanced to the semi-finals. Fourth-seeded Rithvik Choudhary Bollipali and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha defeated fellow Indians Parikshit Somani and Manish Suresh Kumar 5-7,6-1,10-7 while Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan beat French duo Dan Added and Ugo Blanchet 4-6,6-4,10-6. The top seed in the doubles event N.Sriram Balaji and Germany's Andre Begemann were knocked out by all German duo Jacob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner 3-6, 4-6.
The doubles finals will be played tomorrow while the singles final will be played on Sunday.