Balachandar Subramanian beat high seed Karthik Karunakaran 4-6, 7-6(4), [10-5] in the semifinals of the National wheelchair tennis championship at the Indore Tennis Club on Wednesday.
In the final, Subramanian will play his doubles companion and second seed Shekar Veerasswamy who eased previous Sathasivam Kannupayan for the lack of two video games.
In the doubles final, Subramanian and Veeraswamy will play high seeds Mariappan Durai and Karunakaran.
In the ladies’s part, high seed Okay.P. Shilpa gained her third and final league match towards Sheranthi Thomas 9-1 to emerge champion in the four-player area. She had earlier overwhelmed Prathima Rao and Nalina Kumari.
The outcomes (semifinals): Men: Balachandar Subramanian bt Karthik Karunakaran 4-6, 7-6(4), [10-5]; Shekar Veeraswamy bt Sathasivam Kannupayan 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles: Mariappan Durai & Karthik Karunakaran bt H Madhusudan & Indrajeet Pandey 6-1, 6-4; B Subramanian & Shekar Veeraswamy bt M Gabriel & S Sureshkumar 6-1, 7-5.
