New Delhi, Aug 28 - Yuki Bhambri will be looking for his fourth International Tennis Federation (ITF) title at the DLTA complex when he plays Vishnu Vardhan in an all-Indian final at the $10,000 tournament here Saturday.
Top-seeded Vardhan won his semi-final Friday by default as last week's winner Young-Jun Kim pulling out trailing 2-4 in the first set, complaining of heat exhaustion and a sore knee.
Later in the day, 17-year-old Yuki, seeded second, made short work of Australian opponent of Indian origin K. Balakrishnan, 6-2, 6-4 in little over an hour.
It is the third time in five months that Yuki and Vardhan will be meeting and the second time in the final. Yuki, who has won three back-to-back ITF tournaments at the venue before losing one in July, has beaten Vardhan twice and lost once. He won the last two times they met.
The junior Australian Open champion, who is playing the tournament as a tune-up for forthcoming junior US Open, dominated from the start and with his good court-craft and deep groundstrokes. The Indian chased everything sent across the net and the Australian could not sustain the rallies for long.
Yuki broke Balakrishnan in the fifth and the seventh games of the match before closing the first set with an ace.