Jamie Murray won two matches in one day to reach the doubles final at the Apia International in Sydney.
After the schedule was disrupted by the weather, the Scot, with his doubles partner, the Brazilian Bruno Soares, won a quarter-final against the Australian pair Matt Reid and Jordan Thompson 6-4, 6-4 before seeing off Poland’s Lukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski in three sets.
Murray and Soares will face India’s Rohan Bopanna and Romania’s Florin Mergea in the final.
In the men’s singles Grigor Dimitrov continued his promising start to the new season when he beat Gilles Müller 6-2, 7-6 to set up a final against the defending champion Viktor Troicki.
Troicki, who played two full matches on Friday, had to come from a set and 4-2 down to beat Teymuraz Gabashvili 3-6, 6-4 6-4 and clinch his place in a second successive final at the Australian Open warm-up, which he won as a qualifier last year.
Troicki had launched a comeback to beat Nicolas Mahut 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in his quarter-final on Friday morning but that was nothing compared to the depths he dug himself out of in his afternoon match.
The Russian Gabashvili looked well on his way to a first ATP final when he led 6-3, 4-2 but the Serb returned from a short rain break to win the next four games and level up the contest.
Troicki was broken when he served for the match at 5-2 in the third set and but made no mistake with his second attempt, wrapping up the victory with an ace.
The top seed Bernard Tomic had earlier retired from his quarter-final while trailing Gabashvili 6-3, 3-0 with food poisoning.
