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At $50K Womens Challenger, Delhi, India

Shikha scored a upset win over top-300 player after more than year, this was also her first win in singles after 9 consecutive losses from July ... Another wild card holder Poojashree also started well with scoring win against higher ranked Chinese player ... Shalini Sahoo also scored creditable win in the final qualifying round to qualify for this challenger.

In doubles also good start for Uberoi and Bhambri sisters who upset seeded pairs in the first round.

Singles First Round -
(1) Masa Zec-Peskiric (SLO,136) bt Laura Siegemund (GER,391) 62 62
Emily Webley-Smith (GBR,376) bt (Q) Shalini Sahoo (IND,736) 63 60

Anastasiya Vasylyeva (UKR,498) bt Miki Miyamura (JPN,454) 64 63
Montinee Tangphong (THA,348) bt (6) Florence Haring (FRA,270) 75 67(0) 61

(4) Anna Gerasimou (GRE,222) bt Marina Melnikova (RUS,514) 67(5) 64 64
Chiaki Okadaue (JPN,300) bt Shiho Hisamatsu (JPN,435) 61 64

Bojana Jovanovski (SRB,375) bt (WC) Parul Goswami (IND,656) 61 64
(5) Melanie Klaffner (AUT,282) bt Tadeja Majeric (SLO,417) 75 64

(WC) Shikha Uberoi (IND,658) bt (7) I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE,275) 62 64
Ling Zhang (HKG,414) bt Nudnida Luangnam (THA,481) 60 75

(WC) Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,686) bt Shaozhuo Liu (CHN,495) 62 64
(3) Sandra Zahlavova (CZE,186) bt (Q) Anastasia Malhotra (JPN,568) 63 64

(8) Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR,269) bt Sanaa Bhambri (IND,482) 61 60
Ankita Bhambri (IND,404) bt (WC) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND,516) 61 64

(Q) Romana Tabakova (SVK,703) bt (Q) Ganna Piven (UKR,530) 63 64
Megan Moulton-Levy (USA,368) bt (2) Margit Ruutel (EST,163) 46 64 64

Doubles First Round -
Neha Uberoi (USA)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) bt (1) Melanie Klaffner (AUT)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) 76(3) 64
Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Shaozhuo Liu (CHN) bt (WC) Parul Goswami (IND)/ Poojashree Venkatesha (IND) 63 61

(3) Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR)/ Florence Haring (FRA) bt Parija Maloo (IND)/ Marina Melnikova (RUS) 63 62
Megan Moulton-Levy (USA)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) bt Shiho Hisamatsu (JPN)/ Miki Miyamura (JPN) 76(4) 62

Ganna Piven (UKR)/ Anastasiya Vasylyeva (UKR) bt Ayu-Fani Damayanti (INA)/ Lavinia Tananta (INA) 64 61
Ankita Bhambri (IND)/ Sanaa Bhambri (IND) bt (4) Tadeja Majeric (SLO)/ Masa Zec-Peskiric (SLO) 64 76(4)

Anna Gerasimou (GRE)/ Margit Ruutel (EST) bt (WC) Shalini Sahoo/ Jun-Yi Zheng (CHN) 61 62
(2) I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE)/ Ling Zhang (HKG) bt (WC) Ratnika Batra (IND)/ Shweta Rana (IND) 62 60

Singles Qualifying Final Round -
Shalini Sahoo (IND) bt Aleksandra Filipovksi (HUN) 67(5) 76(6) 63
(2) Ganna Piven (UKR) bt (6) Ayu-Fani Damayanti (INA) 63 62
(3) Anastasia Malhotra (JPN) bt Jun-Yi Zheng (CHN) 61 63
Romana Tabakova (SVK) bt (4) Margarita Edinarova (RUS) 63 60

Second Round -
Aleksandra Filipovksi (HUN) bt (1) Neha Uberoi (USA) 36 63 75
Shalini Sahoo (IND) bt (8) Parija Maloo (IND) 62 75

(2) Ganna Piven (UKR) bt Ratnika Batra (IND) 76(5) 36 62
(6) Ayu-Fani Damayanti (INA) bt Vishakha Sheoran (IND) 60 60

(3) Anastasia Malhotra (JPN) bt Garima Vatwani (IND) 62 64
Jun-Yi Zheng (CHN) bt Shivika Burman (IND) 46 76(3) 62

(4) Margarita Edinarova (RUS) bt (WC) Smriti Joon (IND) 62 62
Romana Tabakova (SVK) bt (5) Lavinia Tananta (INA) 62 64

First Round -
(1) Neha Uberoi (USA) BYE
Aleksandra Filipovksi (HUN) bt Marta Sirotkina (RUS) 76(5) 76(4)
Shalini Sahoo (IND) bt Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND) 60 62
(8) Parija Maloo (IND) btOmlata-Rai Kumari (IND) 60 60

(2) Ganna Piven (UKR) BYE
Ratnika Batra (IND) bt (WC) Likitha Shetty (IND) 60 62
Vishakha Sheoran (IND) bt Disha Saigal (IND) 62 76(3)
(6) Ayu-Fani Damayanti (INA) bt Kumari-Sweta Solanki (IND) 61 62

(3) Anastasia Malhotra (JPN) BYE
Garima Vatwani (IND) bt Sagarika Phadke (IND) 61 62
Jun-Yi Zheng (CHN) bt Sonal Phadke (IND) 63 60
Shivika Burman (IND) bt (7) Prerana-Mythri Appineni (IND) 76(5) 64

(4) Margarita Edinarova (RUS) bt Shweta Rana (IND) 62 63
(WC) Smriti Joon (IND) bt Renuka Keswani (IND) 64 63
Romana Tabakova (SVK) bt Prerna Bhambri (IND) 61 46 63
(5) Lavinia Tananta (INA) bt (WC) Sadhana Athreya (IND) 60 60