Champaign Challenger: Paes and Raja in semifinals

Continuing their fine run after winning the Knoxville Challenger last week, Leander Paes and Purav Raja reached doubles semifinals of the $75,000 Champaign Challenger with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Nathaniel Lammons and Alex Lawson of the US.

Leander Paes and Purav Raja will aim to make it to the final, as they continue their fine run after clinching the Knoxville Challenger trophy last week.

Top seeds Leander Paes and Purav Raja powered into the doubles semifinals of the $75,000 Challenger tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Nathaniel Lammons and Alex Lawson of the US.

Paes and Raja will aim to make it to the final, as they continue their fine run after clinching the Knoxville Challenger trophy last week . In the ITF men’s Futrues in Vietnam, Sasi Kumar Mukund made the singles semifinals, but lost the doubles semifinals in partnership with Vasisht Cheruku.

READ: Leander, Purav in quarterfinals The results: $75,000 Challenger men, Champaign, US Doubles (quarterfinals): Leander Paes & Purav Raja bt Nathaniel Lammons & Alex Lawson (US) 6-3, 6-1. $15,000 ITF men, Meshref, Kuwait Doubles (semifinals): Robert Galloway (US) & Benjamin Lock (Zwe) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & PC Vignesh 6-3, 0-6, 10-6. $15,000 ITF men, Thu Dau Mot City, Vietnam Singles (quarterfinals): Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Jakub Paul (Che) 6-3, 6-4. Doubles (semifinals): Miliaan Niesten (Nld) & Francesco Vilardo (Ita) bt Vasisht Cheruku & Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-0, 6-2.