CHENNAI, January 22: "It is not possible to perform to your full potential day in and day out". Thus summed up 26-year-old German Marcus Hilpert's feelings about his performance. Despite making umpteen unforced errors he was hardly stretched by the fourth seed Rohan Wadhera, who failed to capitalise on numerous chances and lost 3-6, 2-6 in just under an hour in the semifinals of the South India Tennis Tournament, co-sponsored by Bank of India and Madras Gymkhana Club at the Gymkhana clay courts, on Thursday.Hilpert will meet third seed Vasudeva Reddy of IOC in the final slated for Saturday. Vasudeva Reddy put up an impressive show of power tennis to stop Vijay Kannan's fine run with a 6-2, 6-4 victory.
Aarti-Uzma title clash: Top seed Aarti Ponappa completed a marathon ACT outlasting team-mate V Archana after 2 hours and 27 minutes in the heat. Third seed Uzma Khan continued her dominance over Sai Jayalakshmi by scoring her fifth consecutive victory.
RESULTS (All semifinals)
Men's
singles: Marcus Hilpert (Ger) bt Rohan Wadhera (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; Vasudeva Reddy (IOC) bt Vijay Kannan (TN) 6-2, 6-4. Doubles (QFs): Gaurav Natekar & Marcus Hilpert bt Rohan Wadhera & Vijay Kannan 6-3, 6-2; Vasudeva Reddy & Praveen Kumar bt Vinod Sridhar & Rajkumar Gopalan 6-2, 6-1; CV Anand & R Balaji bt Meenakshi Sundaram & Prem Prakash 6-2, 6-2; Rishi Sridhar & Anand Radhakrishnan bt Suresh Kumar & Karthik Kumar 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.
Women singles: Aarti Ponappa (Kar) bt V Archana (Kar) 7-6 (7-2), 4-6, 6-2; Uzma Khan (AP) bt Sai Jayalakshmi 6-4, 6-3. Doubles (QFs): Sai Jayalakshmi & Aarti Ponappa bt Sandya K & Samritha Sekar 6-2, 6-3; Aparna Srinivasan & Reetu Sethi bt Preethi Rao & C Nandita 6-3, 6-1; V Archana & V Arthi bt P Sadya & Jothika Choksi 6-2, 1-2 (conceded)
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