Bengaluru, Feb 11: Third seeded Indian pair of Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan cruised into the final of the men’s doubles event of the Bengaluru Open ATP Challenger with an easy straight-set win over Jay Clarke and Marc Polmans here on Friday.
The Indian duo defeated the Great Britain-Australia combine of Clarke and Polmans 6-4, 6-4.
They will take on the French pair of Hugo Grenier and Alexandre Muller, who stunned the second seeded Austrian-Czech pair of Alexander Erler and Vit Kopriva 6-3, 6-4, in the summit clash.
In the singles event, qualifier Borna Gojo from Croatia stormed into the semi-finals with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over higher-ranked Belgian Kimmer Coppejans. The 28-year-old will meet Muller in the last four match after Muller downed a fighting Cem Ilkel of Turkey 6-4, 7-6 (7) in another quarter-final.
Top seed and hot favourite Jiri Vesely of Croatia had to quit his quarter-final match against sixth seed Enzo Couacaud owing to severe stomach ache caused by food poisoning.
In the second semi, Enzo will clash with Chun-hsin Tseng of Taipei. (PTI)
