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ITF Tennis: Tsai and Huang to contest final

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IANS Chennai
Last Updated : Aug 30 2013 | 8:00 PM IST

It will be an all-Taipei final in the boys singles as third seeded Yi-Wei Huang and Ching-Huang Tsai made it to the title round of the Indian Oil-Servo ITF Junior tennis tournament here Friday with contrasting victories.

Huang overcame unseeded Indian Nikshep Ballekere 6-3, 6-4 while Tsai shrugged off a first set loss to knock out fifth seeded Basil Khuma 4-6, 6-1, 6-0 in the semi-finals.

The girls singles final will be between India's Zeel Desai who put away fifth seeded Vasanti Shinde 6-4, 6-2, and compatriot Dhruthi Venugopal who eliminated Nandini Das 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

The results:

Boys singles (semi-finals): 3-Yi-Wei Huang (TPE) bt Nikshep Ballekere (IND) 6-3, 6-4. Ching-Huang Tsai (TPE) bt 5-Basil Khuma (IND) 4-6, 6-1, 6-0.

Doubles (final): 5-Basil Khuma / Deepak Vshvakarma (IND) bt Chao-Ting Hsieh / Chang-Wu Lu (TPE) 4-6, 6-1 (10-8).

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Girls singles (semi-finals): 14-Zeel Desai (IND) bt 5-Vasanti Shinde (IND) 6-4, 6-2; 2-Dhruthi Venugopal (IND) bt 10-Nandini Das (IND) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(5).

Doubles (final): 3-Ojasvinee Singh / Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) bt 1-Ya-Ting Chang / Yi-Chi Ma (TPE) 6-4, 7-5.

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First Published: Aug 30 2013 | 7:56 PM IST

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