Ankita Raina edged out by Chloe Paquet in Tashkent
Ankita Raina went down fighting to the eighth seed Chloe Paquet of France in the first qualifying round of the $250,000 WTA tennis tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The 160th ranked Chloe prevailed 7-6(8), 3-6, 7-5. Ankita collected one WTA point and $750.
The results:
$250,000 WTA, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Qualifying singles (first round): Chloe Paquet (FRA) bt Ankita Raina 7-6(8), 3-6, 7-5.
$25,000 ITF men, Jouneih, Lebanon
Qualifying singles (second round): Vladyslav Gorodynskyi (UKR) bt Yash Vardhan Singh 6-1, 6-1; First round: Yash Vardhan Singh bt Mykyta Riepkin (UKR) 6-7(2), 6-4, [12-10].
$25,000 ITF men, Oliveira De Azemeis, Portugal
Qualifying singles (first round): Paramveer Singh Bajwa bt Bernardo Gandara (POR) 6-4, 6-0; Miquel Damas (ESP) bt Aditya Katticaren 6-1, 6-1; Terence Das bt Rafael Gentil (BRA) 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Nanchang, China
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Sheng Tang (CHN) 6-2, 6-0; Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Tomohiro Masabayashi (JPN) 6-1, 7-6(0).
Second round: Uisung Park (KOR) bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi 6-0, 6-4; Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Ruixuan Wang (CHN) 6-2, 6-0; Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Bingyu Yu (CHN) 6-1, 6-4; Timohiri Masabayashi (JPN) bt Faisal Qamar 6-3, 6-2; Shinnosuke Hiramatsu (JPN) bt Prithvi Sekhar 6-2, 6-4.
First round: Yaojie Zeng (CHN) bt Arpit Sharma 6-1, 6-3; Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi bt Ruikai Wang (CHN) 7-6(1), 6-2; Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Aliaksandr Liaonenka (BLR) 6-3, 3-6, [10-6]; Sheng Tang (CHN) bt Yeswanth Loganathan 4-6, 6-1, [10-6]; Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Cheng Han (CHN) 7-6(8), 6-3; Faisal Qamar bt PC Vignesh 6-3, 6-3; Bang Shuo Yin (TPE) bt Jagmeet Singh 6-3, 6-4; Prithvi Sekhar bt Changli Zhang (CHN) 6-2, 6-3; Shinnosuke Hiramatsu (JPN) bt Vasisht Cheruku 6-3, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Qualifying singles (first round): Omar El-Moslemany (EGY) bt Gunjan Jadhav 6-0, 6-4; Sahil Gaware bt Andrei Sokolov (RUS) 6-0 (retired).
$15,000 ITF men, Cancun, Mexico
Qualifying singles (first round): Jason Kros (US) bt Nama Heman 6-4, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF men, Tabarka, Tunisia
Qualifying singles (first round): Giovanni Rizzuti (ITA) bt Vishal Saravanan 6-3, 6-0; Rhys Searant (AUS) bt Aron Paul Samson 7-5, 6-1.
$60,000 ITF women, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Qualifying singles (first round): Sarah Beth Grey (GBR) bt Saisha Khanna 6-0, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF women, Anning, China
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Soha Sadiq bt Jiayun Zhu (CHN) 6-2, 6-1; First round: Soha Sadiq bt Ai Yamaguchi 6-4, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Qualifying singles (first round): Hala Fouad (EGY) bt Aalyka Ebrahim 6-1, 6-1; Avika Sagwal bt Hana Ayman Elsherif (EGY) 6-2, 6-1; Hla El-Sakka (EGY) bt Aaliya Ebrahim 6-1, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF women, Tabarka, Tunisia
Qualifying singles (second round): Lana Sipek (CRO) bt Annika Kannan 6-2, 6-0; Humera Shaik bt Francesca Dell-Edera (ITA) 5-0 (retired); First round: Annika Kannan bt Lilly Dueffert (GER) 6-3, 6-2; Humera Shaik w.o. Vibhasree Gowda.
$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (second round): Jantje Tilbuerger (GER) bt Meenal Maharwal 6-0, 6-0.
(Courtesy: The Hindu)