Bengaluru Open 2023: India’s Anirudh-Prashanth storm into in doubles final; Medjedovic shocks Tseng in QF

Anirudh
and
Prashanth
are
the
only
Indians
remaining
in
the
tournament
as
Sumit
Nagpal’s
exit
in
the
singles
on
Thursday
means
they
are
the
last
resort
of
India
in
this
edition
of
the
Bengaluru
Open.

In
the
singles
quarter-finals,
Hamad
Medjedovic
of
Serbia
toppled
No.
1
seed
Chun-Hsin
Tseng
of
Taipei.
Medjedovic
employed
his
power-packed
serve
and
ground
shots
to
telling
effect
to
carve
a
6-1,
6-2
win
over
his
fancied
opponent.
The
extent
of
Medjedovic’s
dominance
was
evident
from
the
fact
that
he
managed
to
effect
five
breaks
in
the
match.

Medjedovic
will
face
Max
Purcell
in
the
semi-finals
on
Saturday.
Purcell,
the
defending
doubles
champion
in
Wimbledon,
outperformed
Luca
Nardi
of
Italy
6-2,
6-0.

Earlier,
second-seeded
James
Duckworth
of
Australia,
who
was
once
ranked
No.
46
in
the
world,
also
entered
the
semi-finals
with
a
clinical
6-4,
6-1
win
over
Dimitar
Kuzmanov
of
Bulgaria.

Another
Australian
James
McCabe,
who
came
through
qualifiers,
also
booked
his
berth
in
the
semi-finals,
beating
Harold
Mayot
France
6-3,
7-6
(4).