India’s Leander Paes and his American partner James Cerretani entered the smei-finals of the Newport Beach Challenger even as Vishnu Vardhan and N Sriram Babalji were ousted from the Rennes event in France on Friday.
Paes and Cerretani, seeded second, progressed after receiving a walkover from the local pair of Frances Tiafoe and Michael Mmoh, who encountered a shoulder problem.
They are now up against Marcelo Arevalo and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, who knocked out Aliaksandr Bury and Hsien-Yin Peng 7-5, 7-5 in their quarterfinal.
Meanwhile at the USA tournament in France, Unseeded Vardhan and Balaji suffered a 4-6, 4-6 semi-final defeat at the hands of second seeded Sander Arends and Antonio Sancic.
-Inputs from PTI
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