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Indian hopes at the ITF men's Satellite tournament wilted on Thursday with all four contenders from the host country being shown the door in the quarter-finals of the US $25,000 event at the DLTA complex .
Their ouster was disappointing as three of them lost to their opponents meekly, while fourth seed
Vishal Uppal retired hurt when trailing 0-1 against Hyun-Woc Nam of Korea.
Among the other three, J Vishnu Vardhan exhibited some resistance against Sarvar Ikramov of Uzbekistan, who upset top seed Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan on Wednesday, but in vain.
Vardhan fought hard in the first set before surrendering the second rather easily and lost 4-6, 2-6.
The other two matches were also disheartening affairs for home fans as Navdeep Singh went down to sixth seed Julien Maes of France 6-1, 6-1, while seventh seed Vinod Sridhar was tamed by second seed Herbert Wiltsching of Austria 6-0, 6-1.
In the semi-finals, Ikramov will play Nam while Maes will take on Wiltsching.
In the doubles semi-finals, top seeds Murad Inoyatov of Uzbekistan and Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan defeated the Indian duo of Tushar Liberhan and Navdeep Singh 6-4, 6-1 while Korea's Nam and Hyung-Tae Kwon overcame the home challenge of Vivek Shokeen and Sanam Singh 6-4, 6-7(4), 7-5.