Tunisia's Aziz Ouakaa outplays WC entrant Hitesh Chauhan, enters quarters in ITF tennis

Chennai, Jan 15 (UNI) Aziz Ouakaa of Tunisia edged past Wild Card entrant Hitesh Chauhan 6-3, 7-6 (2) to move into the quarter finals of the Adityan ITF M25 International Tennis Tournament being held here on Thursday. In the pre-quarters, Aziz won the first set rather easily, before he faced a stiff resistance from Hitesh, before prevailing in tie-breaker to advance to the last eight state. In other matches, Top seed Max Houkes of Netherlands displayed smooth strokes and easy movement as he outsmarted Timofei Derepasko to win in straight sets, while Second seeded Ilia Simakin proved to be too…