Kiwi tennis players competing in Asian tournaments
New Zealand's Erin Routliffe and Indonesian doubles partner Aldila Sutjiadi are into the final of the WTA 500 Singapore Open after a 6-6(4) 6-3 win over Belgium's Sofia Costoulas and Australian Talia Gibson.
They'll play the Chinese pair of Qianhui Tang and Yifan Xu for the title.
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It's the second final of the year for Routliffe and Sutjiadi after success in Washington last month.
At the men's ATP 250 event in Hangzhou, China the New Zealand pair of Finn Reynolds and James Watt won their first round match over Sander Gille (Belgium) and Sem Verbeek (Netherlands) in straight sets.
They play fourth seeds Evan King (United States) and Bart Stevens (Netherlands) for a place in the semifinals.
At the ATP 250 Chengdu Open in China kiwi Michael Venus and Australian John Peers won their first round match over a British pair in three sets but were beaten in the quarterfinals by Luke Johnson (Great Britain) and Jan Zielinski (Poland) 2-6 6-3 10-7.
