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Final Up to date: February 17, 2023, 21:39 IST
India’s Sumit Nagal continued his good run within the Chennai Open ATP Challenger event, beating Jay Clarke of Nice Britain 6-1 6-Four on Friday to enter the singles semifinal.
The world no.506 gained the quarterfinal in an hour and 22 minutes to arrange a last-four conflict in opposition to American Nicolas Moreno De Alboran.
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Alboran, who ousted prime seed Chun-Hsin Tseng within the second spherical, acquired the higher of Japan’s Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-Three 6-Four in a single hour and 25 minutes.
The Nagal-Clarke match noticed the Indian dominate the primary set fully.
Serving beautifully, the 25-year-old Indian saved the British participant off steadiness with exact hitting. He by no means confronted a break level and landed 81 per cent of his first serves to pile the strain on Clarke to interrupt him thrice. Within the second sport, Nagal confronted some problem from Clarke however a single service break enabled him to seize the set and the match.
In the meantime, Max Purcell beat the No.2 seed James Duckworth 6-Four 4-6 6-Four in a battle of Australians to arrange a conflict in opposition to compatriot Dane Sweeny within the semifinal.
Within the doubles part, Sebastian Ofner and Nino Serdarusic shocked prime seeds N Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Neduchezhiyan 4-6 7-6 10-Four within the semifinals.
India’s Arjun Khade teamed up with Clarke to beat the Czech staff of Petr Nouza and Andrew Paulson 7-5 4-6 10-8.
Outcomes:
Singles (Quarterfinals): Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (USA) beat Yasutaka Uchiyama (Japan) 6-Three 6-4; Sumit Nagal beat Jay Clarke 6-1 6-4; Dane Sweeny (Australia) beat Arthur Cazaux (France) 6-7 7-6 6-3; Max Purcell beat James Duckworth (Australia) 6-Four 4-6 6-4.
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