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Federico Agustin Gomez had enjoyed creaseless sailing successful the gully till helium faced his archetypal large trial successful the Chennai Open ATP Challenger semifinal against Maks Kasnikowski earlier winning successful 3 sets to acceptable up a rubric clash with Frederico Ferreira Silva.
The 2nd seeded Argentine, ranked 196 successful the world, served consistently and broke service erstwhile to instrumentality the opening set. His Polish hostile fought backmost superbly and soon had him connected the backfoot. Kasnikowski improved his serving and broke Gomez doubly to level the match.
The decider saw the 2 players rise their level of play, Gomez successful particular. The Argentine served precise good and importantly his returns did a batch of damage. He broke Kasnikowski’s service connected 2 occasions and won 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 successful implicit 2 hours.
In the 2nd semifinal, Portugal’s Ferreira Silva didn’t person overmuch occupation successful getting past 4th effect Ilia Simakin of Russia 6-4, 6-2.
Ferreira Silva is yet to driblet a acceptable present this week and is chasing his archetypal Challenger singles title.
The top-seeded Indo-Thai duo of Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Pruchya Isaro won the doubles title, beating Jay Clarke and Mukund Sasikumar 6-4, 6-4.
The results: Semifinals: Federico Agustin Gomez (Arg) bt Maks Kasnikowski (Pol) 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; Frederico Ferreira Silva (Por) bt Ilia Simakin (Rus) 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles: Final: Pruchya Isaro (Tha) & Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha bt Jay Clarke (GBr) & Mukund Sasikumar 6-4, 6-4.
