Mumbai, November 15 Karan Singh entered the semi-finals of the 25K men’s ITF tournament by defeating experienced Vishnu Vardhan 7-6(6), 6-2 here on Friday. He is the only Indian to make it to the last four of this tennis tournament.
Seventh seeded 21-year-old Karan ended the challenge of London Olympian Vardhan in one hour and 34 minutes.
Vardhan had a chance to win the opening set but after getting the set point, he made a double fault and Karan took advantage of it. Karan did not give any chance to Vardhan to make a comeback in the second set.
Karan, who has secured a place in the top 500 ranking with this win, will face the challenge of Delibor Sverdsina in the semi-finals.
Bhubaneswar ITF winner this player from Czech Republic defeated Igor Agafonov of Russia 6-4, 6-0 in a one-sided match of the last eight.
Top seed Khmoyun Sultanov faced a tough fight from American junior player Aditya Ganesan. However, the Uzbekistan player won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the match that lasted two hours and 25 minutes.
Sultanov will face fifth seed Bogdan Bobrov of Russia in the semi-finals. Bobrov ended wild card holder Nitin Kumar Sinha’s winning streak with a 6-3, 6-1 victory in a match that lasted one hour and 19 minutes.
In doubles, the pair of Aryan Shah and Ganesan defeated top seeds Agafonov and Bobrov 7-6,6-1 in the semi-finals.
In the final, the pair will face second seeded Indian pair of SD Prajwal Dev and Adil Kalyanpur. The pair of Prajwal and Adil registered a 7-5,6-3 win over the pair of M Rifki Fitriyadi of Indonesia and Jang Yunseok of Korea.
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