Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2019, Melbourne

Prajnesh Gunneswaran (#110), Ramkumar Ramanathan (#132) and Yuki Bhambri (#137) will be seeded players for the Australian Open qualifying ... They r in the initial list declared by Australian Open organizers.

At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Navi Mumbai, India

[R1] (WC) Jennifer Luikham (IND,1049) l (4) Hiroko Kuwata (JPN,269) 36 57
[R1] (Q) Zeel Desai (IND,650) l (Q) Maria Marfutina (RUS,540) 67(3) 64 46
[R1] (WC) Mahak Jain (IND,682) bt (3) Ya-Hsuan Lee (TPE,267) 63 retd.
[R1] (Q) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,814) l (Q) Emily Webley-Smith (GBR,557) 67(2) 63 67(1)
[R1] (WC) Akanksha Dileep Nitture (IND,UNR) l (LL) Naho Sato (JPN,662) 16 75 26
[R1] (WC) Mihika Yadav (IND,1139) l (2) Barbara Haas (AUT,218) 26 75 46

[R2] (WC) Mahak Jain (IND,682) bt Ekaterina Yashina (RUS,362) 76(5) 61

[QF] (WC) Mahak Jain (IND,682) vs (8) Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (FRA,339)

A cruel draw for the Indian players as many of them faced seeded opponents ... Mahak got a lucky break as her top-275 Taipei opponent retired after losing the first set ... But she scored an upset win over the top-375 Russian player, Ekaterina Yashina, in straight sets ... Next, she is facing the former top-250 French girl.

Swojanya lost in a tight match against the experienced Emily Webley-Smith ... Also 15 yrs. old Akanksha Nitture gave a fighting performance against the top-700 Japanese girl in her three sets loss.

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