Tennis Nows -
At US$600K WTA Bangalore Open, India

Qualifying First Round -
Melanie South (GBR) bt (1) Ayumi Morita (JPN) 46 60 60
Ekaterina Dzehalevich (BLR) bt Magda Mihalache (ROU) 61 64
Khrystyna Antoniychuk (UKR) bt [WC] Aurelie Vedy (FRA) 36 63 61
Agnes Szatmari (ROU) bt (6) [WC] Emmanuelle Gagliardi (SUI) 61 36 64

(9) Angelika Bachmann (GER) bt Iroda Tulyaganova (UZB) 64 36 61
Alexandra Stevenson (USA) bt Shengnan Sun (CHN) 75 63
Monique Adamczak (AUS) bt [WC] Sanaa Bhambri (IND) 63 67(4) 61
(5) Mathilde Johansson (FRA) bt I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE) 75 61

(3) Monica Niculescu (ROU) bt Neha Uberoi (USA) 64 62
Debbrich Feys (BEL) bt Jie Zheng (CHN) 62 3-2 Retd.
Kathrin Woerle (GER) bt [WC] Ankita Bhambri (IND) 62 61
(7) Anne Keothavong (GBR) bt Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 62 64

Corinna Dentoni (ITA) bt (4) Andreja Klepac (SLO) 46 64 76(5)
Tiantian Sun (CHN) bt [WC] Akshitha Basavaraju (IND) 61 60
Junri Namigata (JPN,169) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) 62 62
Sunitha Rao (IND,181) bt (8) Vesna Manasieva (RUS,150) 64 26 75

Huge win for Sunitha over talented Russian top-150 girl, more over considering injustice from Bangalore Open organizers towards Sunitha, who didn't give wildcard to India's no. 2.