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Your support makes all the difference.Britain's Jamie Delgado reached the semi-final of the LTA men's satellite at Bramhall, Cheshire with a 4-6, 7-6, 7-6 victory over Ivo Heuberger, of Switzerland, in a match lasting two hours 48 minutes. Delgado, the 18-year-old from Warwickshire, next takes on Sander Groen, of the Netherlands, who beat the No 6 seed, Nick Gould of Avon, 6-7, 6-2, 7-6. Colin Beecher, of Kent, lost out to Scott Humphries, of the United States, who will face Sweden's Johan Alven in the other semi-final.
Sam Smith, of Essex, overcame a spirited fightback by Shirli-Ann Siddall to reach the final of the LTA satellite event in Sunderland yesterday. Siddall, the 21-year-old from Dorset, lost the first set 6-3 and only started to play from 5-0 down in the second, mixing up her game to break Smith and hold her own serve to love. But she failed to build on her mini- recovery and Smith, the No 1 seed, duly took the match 6-3, 6-2 to progress to the final, where she will meet the No 2 seed Raluca Sandu of Romania.
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