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Rithvik Bollipalli and Arjun Kadhe in Challenger doubles final

Storm Sanders was Australia’s hero after she won the first singles rubber before returning for the deciding doubles match alongside 38-year-old Samantha Stosur.

Arjun Kadhe. File.
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Top seeds Rithvik Bollipalli and Arjun Kadhe beat Toshihide Matsui of Japan and Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 6-4 in the doubles semifinals of the $133,250 Challenger tennis tournament in Nonthaburi, Thailand, on Friday.

In the final, the Indian pair will be challenged by Blake Ellis and Adam Walton of Australia.

The results:

$133,250 Challenger, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Doubles (semifinals): Rithvik Bollipalli & Arjun Kadhe bt Toshihide Matsui (Jpn) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 6-4.

$25,000 ITF men, Kigali, Rwanda

Singles (quarterfinals): Adil Kalyanpur bt Manuel Plunger (Ita) 6-3, 6-1; Karan Singh bt Guy Iradukunda (Bdi) 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Corentin Denolly (Fra) & Aziz Ouakaa (Tun) bt Adil Kalyanpur & Rishi Reddy 6-4, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Doubles (semifinals): Daniil Golubev & Evgenii Tirunev bt Aryan Lakshmanan & Roland Stuurman (Ned) 6-4, 7-5.

$25,000 ITF women, Berkeley, USA

Doubles (quarterfinals): Alicia Linana (Esp) & Sahaja Yamalapalli w.o. Iva jovic & Clervie Ngounoue (USA); Rutuja Bhosale & Ema Burgic (USA) bt Angella Okutoyi (Ken) & Merna Refaat (Egy) 6-4, 6-2.

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