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Shikha in last four

NEW DELHI: Shikha Uberoi reached the women's semifinals with a 6-3, 1-6, 6-0 victory over So-Jung Kim of Korea in the $100,000 Asian tennis championship at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Thursday.

The results:

Men (pre-quarterfinals): Zhe Li (Chn) bt Vivek Shokeen 6-3, 6-4; Woong-Sun Jun (Kor) bt Vishnu Vardhan 7-6 (2), 6-2.

Doubles (semifinals): Alexey Kedriouk (Kaz) and Mustafa Ghouse bt Mohammad Al Ghareeb (Kuw) and Pathanjali Ravishankar 3-6, 6-3, 6-4: Quarterfinals: Al Ghareeb and Ravishankar bt Danil Braun (Kaz) and Dilshod Saidmukhamedov (Uzb) 6-4, 6-2; Alexey Kedriouk and Mustafa Ghouse bt Zhe Li and Feng Xue (Chn) 6-2, 7-6(4).

Women (quarterfinals): Shikha Uberoi bt So-Jung Kim (Kor) 6-3, 1-6, 6-0; Pre-quarterfinals: Yung-Jan Chan (Tpe) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; So-Jung Kim (Kor) bt Sanaa Bhambri 6-2, 6-3; Shikha Uberoi bt Ka-Po Tong (Hkg) 6-4, 6-1; Chin-Wei Chan (Tpe) bt Ankita Bhambri 7-5, 6-1.

Doubles (semifinals): Wan-Ting Liu and Shuai Zhang (Chn) w.o. Chin-Wei Chan (Tpe) and Shikha Uberoi; Quarterfinals: Yung-Jan Chan and Chia-Jung Chuang (Tpe) bt Ksenia Palkina (Kgz) and Isha Lakhani 6-3, 6-4; Chin-Wei Chan and Shikha Uberoi bt Mariya Kovaleva and Yekaterina Morozova (Kaz) 6-1, 6-4.

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