Thursday, November 13, 2014

Tennis News

At $50K Champaign Challenger, USA

[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Ruben Gonzales (PHI) l Gastao Elias (POR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR) 46 46

Disappointing loss for Purav-Ruben ... This was winnable match for them but they failed to capitalize ... Overall not an encouraging performance from them in their last few weeks partnership ... Next they r playing big Australian open wild card tournament in China, hoping for their qualification for Australian open.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Mumbai, India

[QF] (8) Ankita RAINA (IND,315) l (2) Anastasiya VASYLYEVA (UKR,174) 46 36

Doubles
[R1] (4) Jia-Jing LU (CHN)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Ivana JOROVIC (SRB)/ Sofiya KOVALETS (UKR) 62 62
[QF] (4) Jia-Jing LU (CHN)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Prerna BHAMBRI (IND)/ Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) 61 63
[SF] (4) Jia-Jing LU (CHN)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) bt (2) Elise MERTENS (BEL)/ Anastasiya VASYLYEVA (UKR) 61 64

Final
(4) Jia-Jing LU (CHN)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) bt (1) Nicha LERTPITAKSINCHAI (THA)/ Peangtarn PLIPUECH (THA) 64 16 11-9

Ankita play decent match in her loss against top-175 Ukrainian player ... Ankita is looking well settled player around her 300 ranking ... Now she need to take next step to push her ranking towards 250 and then top 200.

Ankita win her first $25K tournament title though in the doubles with Jia-Jing Lu ... In the final and semi-final they defeated top two seeds pairs ... In the final after winning the first set they struggled against Thai pair, who dominated the second set ... In match tie-break Ankita-Lu recovered and won it in extra points.

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