Japanese seita watanabe

ITF Kalaburagi Open: Ramkumar Ramanathan was the lone Indian left in the fray in the last-four stage in the men’s singles section at the ITF Kalaburagi Open here on Friday. In the quarterfinals played at the Chandrashekhar Patil Stadium in Kalaburagi on Friday, the fifth seed quelled the challenge of giant-killer Manish Sureshkumar 7-5, 6-0 to make it to the semifinals.

In the other quarterfinal matches of the day, Aryan Shah went down fighting to Ryotaro Taguchi of Japan 3-6, 2-6 while sixth seed Rishab Agarwal succumbed to second seed Matsuda Ryuki of Japan 0-6, 4-6.

In a one-sided affair seventh seed David Pichler of Austria saw the back of Japanese Seita Watanabe with a 6-0, 6-0 win in the last quarterfinal tie.