00:00In tennis, Francis Alcantarat beat his side partner, Frucia Isara, to enter the semifinals
00:08after they beat the unseeded Japanese duo Shintaro Mochizuki and Kaito Uesugi 5-7-4-6
00:17in the quarter-final round of the ATP Challenger Chennai Open in India.
00:21The match lasted for more than an hour,
00:26but the Japanese pair remained strong and preserved their lead despite the pursuit of the Filipino-Thai tandem.
00:34Before their elimination, Alcantarat and Isara first struggled against the Russian-Kazakh team
00:40Timofey Skatov and Alexey Zakharov in the round of 16 6-3-4-6-10-7 in the quarter-finals.
00:48Alcantarat and Isara fell to 1-4 in the first set, but the score on 5-5 was restored.
00:55However, the set went to the Japanese team due to the double faults of the Filipino-Thai duo.
01:01In the second set, Alcantarat and Isara were first in the fourth set,
01:05but Mochizuki and Uesugi defeated them again due to the success of Mochizuki and Uesugi.
01:15In the semi-final, the Indian duo defeated Sundar Prashant and Jivan Nedunchezian in a tournament with a prize pool of US$160,000 or more than 9.3 million pesos.
