MANILA\u00a0—\u00a0Arthur Craig Pantino and Michael Francis Eala ended their campaign in the 30th Chief Minister’s Cup after losing in the second round at the Sarawak Lawn Tennis Centre in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
According to the tournament website on Friday, Pantino was beaten by third seed Indian Digvijay Pratap Singh, 1-6, 4-6, while Eala fell to 11th seed South African Gerharrdtt Marius Becker, 6-2, 1-6.<\/p>\n
Singh’s next opponent is No. 16 Taiwanese Lin Ha-Chih, who pulled off a 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Swedish wild card Oliver Andersson.<\/p>\n
Becker, on the other hand, will meet No. 7 Japanese Rinky Hijikata, who won over Chinese Lu Pengyu, 6-0, 6-1.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, top seed Malaysian Christian Didier Chin rallied past Swedish Leyton Rivera, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to advance to the third round where he wil meet American Nikit Reddy, a 6-3, 6-0 winner over No. 13 Chinese Zhou Xinmu.<\/p>\n
Also booking third-round slots were No. 2 Japanese Seita Watanabe, No. 5 Australian Campbell Salmon and No. 6 Taiwanese Yu Hua-Chen.<\/p>\n
Watanabe defeated Indian Theerttha Shashank Macherla, 6-2, 6-2, to advance against No. 14 Thai Kasidit Samrej, who prevailed over Taiwanese Wang Cheng-Chieh, 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n
Salmon outclassed Norwegian Herman Jentoft, 6-2, 6-0, to arrange a third-round meeting with Swedish wild card Hugo Regner, who scored a 7-5, 6-3 victory over No. 12 Beibit Zhukayev.<\/p>\n
Yu beat Swedish qualifier Rikard Raad, 6-2, 6-3, to advance against Chinese Zhao Run Yu, who outplayed No. 10 Indian Karan Srivastava, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Other winners were No. 9 Chinese Yu Bingyu over Swedish wild card Oliver Dunne, 6-3, 6-2; No. 15 Norwegiaan Lukas Hellum Lilleengen over Thai Yuttaana Charoenphon, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Korean Kim Dong Ju over No. 4 Megh Bhargav Patel, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; and Norwegian Herman Hoeyeraal over No. 8 Ng Ki Lung of Hong Kong, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n
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