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Johannesburg: Rising star Somdev Devvarman was never seriously troubled as he defeated local Izak van der Merwe 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the South African Open final. Devvarman is a bogey man for the South Africans, defeating Rik de Voest and van der Merwe in a 2009 Davis Cup play-off and also seeing off both players this week at the Montecasino entertainment centre. He wasted little time winning the first set, breaking serve in the first and third games as an increasingly cloudy sky made the hot mid-summer conditions more bearable. Gangling van der Merwe had a chance to hit straight back in the second game as he sought a first final appearance on the tour, but Devvarman salvaged two break points. Devvarman delivered his second blow in the third game, which lasted more than 10 minutes, clinching it on his fourth break point as he competently handled the booming van der Merwe serve. The next five games went with serve to give the 25-year-old Indian the set and quieten a fast-filling centre-court crowd dreaming of a first all-local South African Open final in 18 years. van der Merwe and Devvarman each held serve for their first three games of the next set, before Devvarman broke again in the seventh when his opponent ended a rally with a tame shot into the net. That proved decisive as the next three games went with serve and the Indian was through to the final.
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