Sipaeya, Bruthans to clash in final

Slovakia's Victor Bruthans and India's Sunil Kumar Sipaeya will clash in the title round in the $10,000 prize-money Stellar ITF Futures Tennis tournament in Gulbarga, Karnataka, on Saturday.

In the semi-finals on Friday, third seeded Bruthans had no difficulty in beating India's Rohan Gajjar, a wild-card entrant, 6-3 6-2, while Sipaeya, seeded number six, defeated eighth seeded Eliran Dooyev of Israel 6-3, 7-5.

In the doubles semi-final, the Slovakian duo of Bruthans and Michel Varsanyi struggled before scoring a hard-fought 7-6 (7-2), 7-5 victory over the Indian pair of Nitin Kirtane and Sourav Panja.

In the doubles final on Saturday, they meet the Indian pair of Harsh Mankad and Ajay Ramaswamy.

Yesterday's report
Sipaeya, Gajjar in last four