Fifth seed Ankita Raina scored a memorable 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-0 victory over Haruka Kaji of Japan in three hours and five minutes in the semifinals of the $25,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament at Aldershot, Great Britain, on Saturday. In the final, Ankita will play eighth seed Joanna Garland of Chinese Taipei.
Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni lost 6-1, 6-7(2), [10-7] in the doubles semifinals to Treat Huey and John-Patrick Smith in the $159,360 Challenger in Vancouver. The Indian pair collected 45 ATP points and $3,240.
In the ITF men’s event in Jakarta, Sasikumar Mukund set up a title clash against second seed Shintaro Imai of Japan. Parikshit Somani and Manish Sureshkumar won the doubles title.
