JAMAICA'S RYAN Russell is poised to continue his march up the world tennis rankings after advancing to the quarter-finals of the Bell Caribbean F10 Futures Championships at Starfish Trelawny yesterday.
Russell won a three-set thriller against Canadian Stephen Timu, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4, to set up a quarter-final date with Gabriel Montilla of Puerto Rico.
Meanwhile, promising young Jamaican Dustin Brown fell to the Netherland Antilles' Jean-Julien Rojer in a keenly-fought three set encounter.
Brown claimed the first set 6-4, lost the second 4-6 and then had three match points before falling to the former UCLA player 7-5 in the third.
Today's quarter-final draw sees Hiroki Kondo of Japan against Rojer, Indonesia's Peter Handoyo taking on Slovakia's Luka Gregorc, Montilla and Russell and South Africa's Roger Anderson challenging American Brandon Wagner.
