Metz (France), Nov 6 (PTI) India’s Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli and his partner Francisco Cabral knocked out top seeds Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin to storm into the men’s doubles semifinal of the Moselle Open, here on Wednesday.
The unseeded Indo-Portuguese pair rattled up a 7-6 (1) 6-4 win over Mexico’s Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin from France in the quarterfinals.
It is first semifinal appearance on the ATP Tour for Bollipalli, who hails from Hyderabad.
They will next face the winners of all-French quarterfinal clash between the pairs of Manuel Guinard/Gregoire Jacq and Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Albano Olivetti.
Sumit Nagal and N Sriram Balaji, the two other Indians who entered the ATP 250 tournament, have already exited following first round defeats in their respective events. PTI AT AT TAP
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