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Former national champion Sourabh Verma stormed his first final of the season after beating compatriot Mithun Manjunath in qualifying matches at the $ 75,000 Saturday Super Tour Russian Open tournament on Saturday .
The 25-year-old Indian on a return track after recovering from injury, beat Mithun 21-9 21-15 in just 31 minutes to establish a clash with Japanese Koki Watanabe tomorrow.
Kuhoo Garg and Rohan Kapoor continued their impressive run to enter the summit clash after defeating Chen Tang Jie's Malaysian combination and Yen Wei Peck in a three-game thriller.
The combo won 21-19 11-21 22-20 over the unseeded Malaysian pair in 58 minutes. They will now face Vladimir Ivanov of Russia and Min Kyung Kim of Korea in the final.
Arun George and Sanyam Shukla, doubles in the men's doubles, have not yet passed the semi-final hurdle since they lost 15-21 19-21 second local Konstantin trio Abramov and Alexandr Zinchenko
Sourabh, who won the Chinese Taipei Masters and finished second at the Bitburger Open in 2016, took a wild start as he took an 11-5 lead at the break after opening a thin advantage 3-1 early
The experienced shuttler continued his dominant run after the sniff, moving to 15-6 lead and 20-7 advantage before pocketing the opening match.
In the second game, Mithun played a better badminton while he took an advantage of 6-4, before going into the interval with a slim lead of 11-10.
However, Sourabh quickly returned the tables in 13-11. At 14-13, Sourabh scored five points in a row to advance to 19-13.
Mithun tried to fight, but Sourabh finally sealed the problem comfortably.
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