Vishnu, Ranjeet set up title clash in Asian Tennis Tour

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Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) Top seed Vishnu Vardhan set up a title date with former Davis Cupper V.M. Ranjeet at the Central Excise Asian Tennis Tour here on Tuesday.

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In their semi-final clash, Nitin Kumar Sinha broke Vishnu to take a 2-0 lead but the latter broke back immediately in the next game. Both players held the serve thereafter and were level at 3-3.

Nitin had few chances but missed passing shorts at some important moments and Vishnu broke again to lead 4-3 and eventually both players held serve for Vishnu to take the set at 6-4.

In the second set, Vishnu, with one break, went on to win the set at 6-4.

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In the other semi-final, second seed Ranjeet with his aggressive ground strokes proved too strong for giant killer Rohit Rampuria from the beginning, winning 6-3, 61.

Rohit was the wild card entry in the tournament and fought hard in the first set but eventually lost 3-6.

In the second set, Rohit started making few errors trying to get more aggressive and Ranjeet eventually won the second set 6-1.

Earlier, Vishnu ousted Saurav Sukul 6-1, 6-1 in the quarter-final while Ranjeet thrashed Ishaque Eqbal 6-1, 6-0.

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The men's singles quarter-final results:

(1) Vishnu Vardhan Beat Saurav Sukul 6-1, 6-1

(2) V.M.Ranjeet Beat Ishaque Eqbal 6-1, 6-0

Nitin Kumar Sinha Beat Parkshit Somani 6-3, 6-1

Rohit Rampuria Beat Jagmeet Singh 6-4, 4-6, 6-3

The men's singles semi-final results:

(1) Vishnu Vardhan Beat Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4, 6-4

(2) V.M. Ranjeet Beat Rohit Rampuria 6-3, 6-1

--IANS

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Edited by Staff Editor
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