Saturday, September 24, 2016

Tennis News

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

From Sania's facebook page
Doubles Final
(2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) bt Chen Liang (CHN)/ Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN)

Sania and Strycova crushed their Chinese opponents for lifting Japan Open title in 51 minutes ... This is their 2nd title in their 3rd tournament as pair and overall 40th title for Sania ... This is also 3rd title of Japan open for Sania before this she had couple of title with Cara Black ... In the first set our pair broke Chinese pairs four times and lost their service game once ... In the second set our pair broke Chinese pair twice.

At $250K WTA Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,293) bt (2) Ekatetina Alexandrova (RUS,143) 16 60 63

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,293) vs (7) Ipek Soylu (TUR,172)

Terrific comeback upset win by Ankita over top-150 Russian Ekatetina Alexandrova, this must be her career best win on pro tour ... After losing the first set Ankita made strong comeback for winning the second without losing a single game and kept that momentum in the final ... In the final qualifying she is facing top-175 Turkish player Ipek Soylu.

At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Hua Hin, Thailand

[Q1] (13) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,668) bt (WC) Thitirat KANAPHUET (THA,UNR) 61 62
[Q1] (10) Natasha PALHA (IND,634) bt Wushuang ZHENG (CHN,909) 75 63
[Q1] (12) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,655) bt Supapitch KUEARUM (THA,UNR) 46 60 61

[Q2] (13) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,668) vs (2) Jia-Qi KANG (CHN,473)
[Q2] (10) Natasha PALHA (IND,634) vs (3) Na Ri KIM (KOR,501)

Good win by Natasha against junior top-20 Chinese player but next she is having tough match against top-500 Korean opponent ... Pranjala also started with expected comfortable win ... Next she is having tough challenge of young Chinese top-475 player Kang ... Other hand surprised to see Karman lost first set against 14 yrs old Thai player before dominating next two sets.

At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[SF] (2) Riya BHATIA (IND,615) bt (7) Britt GEUKENS (BEL,613) 26 63 62

[F] (2) Riya BHATIA (IND,615) vs (6) Ana Bianca MIHAILA (ROM,611)

Really good comeback win from Riya against talented young Belgian Britt Geukens ... After losing the first set Riya made strong comeback for winning next two ... In the final she is facing in-form Mihaila, last week who won the title and before that week she was runner up.

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