Somdev Devvarman's runat the ATP Challenger tournament came to an end after a tamequarter-final defeat against American eighth seed Denis Kudla,here.
Wild card Somdev could not repeat the performance of hislast two matches, where he had come from behind to win, as helost 2-6 0-6 to world number 162 rival in the USD 75,000 hardcourt tournament.
With his the quarter-final appearance the Indian pocketed17 ranking points and earned USD 2190.
Somdev, a wild card entrant, had lost six consecutivefirst round matches before coming into this tournament.
The Indian, who missed the first half of the season as hewas recuperating from a shoulder surgery, has slid to 733 inthe singles ATP rankings.
He had made a comeback to competitive tennis at theLondon Olympics.