Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, Sriram Balaji in doubles final in Shenzhen

Top seeds Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan beat Sanchai Ratiwatana of Thailand and Arjun Kadhe 6-7(4), 6-4, 10-6 in the doubles semifinals of the $75,000 Challenger tennis tournament in China on Friday.

In the final, the Indian pair will challenge second seeds Cheng-Peng Hsieh and Christopher Rungkat who stopped the other Indian pair of Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan.

In the Challenger in Charlottesville, top seeds, Leander Paes in partnership with Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, turned the match around from the brink of defeat to win 13-11 in the super tie-break against Evgeny Karlovskiy and Nino Serdarusic in the doubles pre-quarterfinals.

The results:

$75,000 Challenger men, Shenzhen, China
Singles (quarterfinals): Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (Esp) bt Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-4, 6-2.

Doubles (semifinals): Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Sanchai Ratiwata (Tha) & Arjun Kadhe 6-7(4), 6-4, [10-6; Cheng-Peng Hsieh (Tpe) & Christopher Rungkat (Ina) bt Saketh Myneni & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-4.

$75,000 Challenger men, Charlottesville, US
Doubles (pre-quarterfinalls): Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (Mex) & Leander Paes bt Evgeny Karlovskiy (Rus) & Nino Serdarusic (Cro) 4-6, 7-6(0), [13-11].

$25,000 ITF men, Tay Ninh, Vietnam
Singles (quarterfinals): Filip Bergevi (Swe) bt Manish Sureshkumar 6-3, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia
Doubles (quarterfinals): Tamara Curovic (Srb) & Elessa VAnlangendonck (Bel) bt Louise Brunskog (Swe) & Sathwika Sama 6-2, 6-2.