Machado, Zekic advance to final
Rui Machado of Portugal and Miljan Zekic of Serbia advanced to the final of the Sri Lanka F2 Men’s Futures Tennis tournament with easy wins in the semi-final encounters played at the SLTA tennis courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday.
Rui Machado in action
Machado the winner of the Sri Lanka F1 Tennis tournament last week who will be looking for a repeat performance overcame Jons Luetjen (Germany) while Zekic got the better of Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (India) with the same winning margin of 2-0.
Meanwhile in the second semi-final of the doubles category which was played in the morning yesterday saw the Czech Republic pair of Libor Salaba/Jan Satral defeating the Indian pair Christopher Rungkat/ Ranjeet Viral Murugesan to qualify to the final.
Later the second seeded Czech Republic pair went on to bag the doubles title when they defeated the top seed pair of Sander Gille (Belgium)/Liang-Chi Huang (Taipei) in a thrilling final clash played in the evening.
The singles final between Rui Machado and Miljan Zekic is scheduled to be played from 9.00 a.m. onwards today.
Semi-final results
Singles: Rui Machado (Portugal) beat Jonas Luetjen (Germany) 2-0 (7/5, 6/1). Miljan Zekic (Serbia) beat Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (India) 2-0 (6/3, 6/3).
Doubles: Sander Gille (Belgium)/Liang-Chi Huang (Taipei) beat Miljan Zekic/Arsenije Zlatanovic (Serbia) 2-0 (6/4, 6/4. Libor Salaba/Jan Satral (Czech Republic) beat Christopher Rungkat/ Ranjeet Viral Murugesan (India) 2-0 (6/2, 6/3).
Doubles Final: Libor Salaba/Jan Satral (Czech Republic) beat Sander Gille (Belgium)/Liang-Chi Huang (Taipei) 2-1 (6/2, 4/6, 11/9) – MSA