Bhosale in last four , Vaidehi upsets Pranjala at ITF W15 Solapur

Top seeded Rutuja Bhosale , second seeded Zeel Desai , third seeded Soujanya Bavisetti and sixth seeded Vaidehi Chaudari stormed into the ladies singles semifinal of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Solapur being played at the MSLTA Solapur District Complex.

In singles quarterfinals top seeded Rutuja Bhosale blanked our Denmark’s eighth seeded Elena Jamshidi 6-2 6-0.

Second seeded Zeel Desai was troubled by Wildcard entrant Akanksha Nitture before winning 7-5 6-4 while third seeded Sowjanya Bavisetti stopped the winning run of seventh Seeded Sathwika Sama 6-4 6-1.

Sixth seeded Vaidehi Chaudhari created the biggest upset of the day knocking out winner of the Bengaluru leg and fourth seeded Pranjala Yadlapalli 6-4, 6-4 to make the last four.

In doubles semifinal top seeded pair of Sharmada Balu and Sowjanya Bavisetti battled past young pair of Vaidehi Chaudhari and Mihika Yadav (Ind) 7-6(4) 7-5.

The top seeded pair will take on unseeded pair of Ramya Natarajan (Ind) Sathwika Sama (Ind) who scraped past Sai Samhitha Chamarthi and Soha Sadiq 2-6 6-0 [13-11] in a thrilling match.

Following are the Results:

Singles QF:

Rutuja Bhosale (Ind) [1] bt Elena Jamshidi (Den) [8] 6-2 6-0

Zeel Desai (Ind) [2] bt Akanksha Nitture (Ind) 7-5 6-4

Sowjanya Bavisetti (Ind) [3] bt Sathwika Sama (Ind) [7] 6-4 6-1

Vaidehi Chaudhari (Ind) [6] bt Pranjala Yadlapalli (Ind) [4] 6-4, 6-4

Doubles SF:

Sharmada Balu (Ind) /Sowjanya Bavisetti (Ind) [1] bt Vaidehi Chaudhari (Ind) [3] /Mihika Yadav (Ind) 7-6(4) 7-5

Ramya Natarajan (Ind) /Sathwika Sama (Ind) bt Sai Samhitha Chamarthi (Ind) /Soha Sadiq (Ind) 2-6 6-0 [13-11].