KEY POINTS:
New Zealand tennis No2 Rubin Statham was beaten in the semi-finals of the US$50,000 ($63,922) Challenger event at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by second seed and world No92 Bobby Reynolds (United States).
Meanwhile, Kiwi women's No1 Marina Erakovic, ranked at 88, plays Romanian seventh seed Sorana Cirstea, who is ranked 73rd, in the first round of the US$145,000 Tier IV claycourt event at Fes, Morocco.
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