Mahak Jain goes down fighting in $25,000 tennis in Pune
National champion Mahak Jain went down fighting against top seed Jia-Jing Lu of China who prevailed 6-3, 7-5 in the pre-quarterfinals of the NECC $25,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament at the Deccan Gymkhana in Pune on Wednesday.
The 17-year-old Mahak was the only Indian player to progress into the second round, in the absence of the two leading players Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi.
The results:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Jia-Jing Lu (CHN) bt Mahak Jain 6-3, 7-5; Ekaterina Yashina (RUS) bt Junri Namigata (JPN) 6-3, 6-1; Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) bt Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3; Mariam Bolkvadze (GEO) bt Valeriya Strakhova (UKR) 6-1, 6-7(2), 6-4; Chieh-Yu Hsu (TPE) bt Katarzyna Piter (POL) 6-3, 6-3; Katarzyna Kawa (POL) bt Julie Gervais (FRA) 6-1, 1-0 (retired); Valeria Savinykh (RUS) bt aleksandrina Naydenova (BUL) 6-3, 7-6(3); Marina Melnikova (RUS) bt Berfu Cengiz (TUR) 6-0, 4-6, 6-2.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Polina Leykina (RUS) & Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) bt Katarzyna Kawa (POL) & Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) 6-3, 6-4; Beatrice Gumulya (INA) & Ana Veselinovic (MNE) bt Mariam Bolkvadze (GEO) & Albina Khabibulina (UZB) 7-5, 7-5; Sharon Fichman (CAN) & Valeria Savinykh (RUS) bt Amina Anshba & Maria Marfutina (RUS) 6-4, 6-0; Berfu Cengiz (TuUR & Jessy Rompies (INA) bt Nika kukharchuk (RUS) & Pei-Chi Lee (TPE) 6-1, 6-3.
