Semi-final of the Men's singles in the Challenger tounament in Burnie, Tasmania and today it was a lot milder weather with sunshine.Greg faced 21 year-old Japanese Yuichi Sugita, currently ranked 301, wirh a high rank of 255, who had beaten the No. 5 seed along the way.
Serving 1st Greg got off to a confident start, holding serve then breaking Sugita, and holding to go to a 3-0 lead. Games then went with serve, with Greg having half-chances on Sugita's service games and serving extremely well on his own serve to deny Sugita any chance of getting back. Greg served out the set 6-3.
With Sugita serving 1st Greg had a deuce game to get to 1-1, then broke Sugita to go a break up, serving to go 3-1. Giving up very few points on his own serve, games went to 5-3, Greg up. He stepped up and notch and made some great returns of Sugita's serve, bringing up match point and converting to record a good win 6-3, 6-3 and advance to his 2nd Challenger final of his career. Incidentally, Burnie in Feb 2007 was the other time he played in a Challenger final (at the tender age of 18). So familiar territory for Greg...
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