KEY POINTS:
Waikato tennis player Leanne Baker has cruised through to the doubles final at a US$25,000 ITF tournament in Catania, Italy.
Baker and regular doubles partner Nicole Kriz of Australia beat Russian Daria Bykodavova and Letizia Lo Re (Italy) 6-0, 6-2 and then Italians Stella Menna and Nathalie Vierin 6-1, 6-1.
Rubin Statham has fought his way into the quarter-finals in the singles at the US$15,000 Daegu Futures in Korea, but Simon Rea has fallen in a close second-round match.
Rea lost to Korean Oh-Hee Kwon 7-6(3), 6-7(6), 7-5. In the doubles, Dan King-Turner and Danish partner Fredrik Nielsen are through to the semifinals.