Sourabh Singh, Tushar Liberhan
in final

Third seed Sourabh Singh put the breaks on spirited Dor Wetheimer of Israel to storm into the final of ITF Junior tennis tournament in Delhi on Thursday.

Wetheimer, who had ousted top seed Jaco T Mathew and sixth seed Somdev K Devvarman in the previous rounds, was outclassed by Sourab 6-1, 6-1 in a little over 50 minutes.

Sourabh will now play Tushar Liberhan, who booked his final berth with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 victory over Chatwinder Singh, in an hour and 35 minutes.

"Chatwinder's comeback in the second set enthused me for a better performance. I used all my strength and it produced results in the third set," a jubilant Liberhan said.

The girls' section saw a heightened performance by top seed Isha Lakhani, who downed Taipei player Yung Jan Chan 6-0, 7-5.

Meanwhile, in a major upset, second seed Sanaa Bhambri was shown the door by unseeded Kartiki Bhat 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 in another semi-final match.

Though Lakhani used her solid baseline game to sweep through the initial set, Chan cameback in the second set by breaking the Indian's serve in the first game. After that both kept on breaking each other's serve till the 11th game, which Lakhani managed to win.

Lakhani broke Chan's service again in the next game to take the set 7-5 and win the match.

In the boys' doubles semi-finals, the top seeded pair of Mathew and Devvarman beat the combination of Amit Inbar and Cohen Asaf (Israel) 6-3, 6-2 while Tushar Liberhar/Divij Sharan downed I Kokurin (Uzbekistan)/I Kovalev (Kazakhistan) 7-6 (7/2), 6-0.