Radhika eyes a double

Earlier, the promising Tulpule, ranked sixth in the singles, followed up her yesterday’s upset win over second seed Chakravarthi by showing the door to third seeded Archana Venkataraman 6-0, 6-3 in a one-sided semi-final to set up a title clash with top seeded Sai Jayalakshmy, who stormed past Arthi Venkataraman 6-1, 6-1.

In men’s singles, local boy Syed Fazaluddin justified his top billing to move into the summit round getting the better of fifth seeded Vishal Uppal of Delhi after overcoming an opening set reverse 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.

The lanky Davis Cupper will be involved in a title clash with sixth seeded Delhi’s Vijay Kannan, who needed only 37 minutes to prevail over an injured eighth seed Sourav Panja of the host state 6-3, 6-1.