South African Lloyd Harris (6th seed, No. 115 in the rankings) has reached the final of the Challenger 100 tournament in Jingshan. In the semifinal he faced seventh-seeded Australian Alex Bolt (No. 173 in the rankings). The match ended in a retirement by Bolt with the score at 5-7 7-6(2) 0-0.
Harris breezed through his first three matches at the tournament without dropping a set. He defeated Alexis Galarneau and Luka Pavlovic by the same 6-2 6-3 scoreline, and in the quarterfinal got the better of Andre Ilagan, 7-5 6-1.
According to api.tennis, the two had met once before. In 2018 in Fairfield, Harris won 6-3 6-4.