Unseeded Harsh Mankad of India [ Images ] sailed into the semi-finals of the ITF men's Futures tournament, scoring a facile straight sets victory over Vitali Chevts of Belarus at the Oudh Gymkhana in Lucknow [ Images ] on Thursday.

Mankad, the lone Indian challenge left in the singles fray, displayed an attacking brand of tennis to carve out a 6-1, 6-3 victory.

The Indian dominated the proceedings from the beginning and capitalised on a number of unforced errors by his opponent, making his task of securing a berth in the last four stage easier.

Mankad, who had defeated Henr Susilo Promono of Indonesia 6-1, 6-2 in the pre-quarter-finals, displayed the same form.

He will now meet fifth seed Todor Enev of Bulgaria in the semi-finals tomorrow.

The Indian challenge in doubles, however, ended when the top seeded pair of Mustafa Ghouse and Vijay Kannan went down fighting to Pronomo and widhiyanto 6-7(6), 7-6(6), 6-7(6).

In the other singles matches, number two seed Orest Tereshchuk of Ukraine beat Naim Lalji of England [ Images ] in straight sets 6-3, 6-3 to secure a berth in the semi-finals. He will now play Satoshi Ivabuchi of Japan [ Images ], who defeated Tomislav Peric of Croatia [ Images ] 7-6(2) 6-4.

In another quarter-final match, Todor Inov of Belarus got past Dong Hyun Kim of South Korea, winning 6-2, 6-4.