Mahak Jain in pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 women’s event in Pune

admin_aitatennis 12, Dec 2018

National champion Mahak Jain beat lucky-loser Ksenia Palkina of Kyrgyzstan 6-3, 6-2 to set up a second round against top seed Jia-Jing Lu of China in the NECC $25,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament at the Deccan Gymkhana, in Pune, on Tuesday.

Mahak was originally scheduled to play qualifier Paula Cristina Goncalves of Brazil, who reported sick.
Bhuvana Kalva ran into the champion of last week in Solapur, Marina Melnikova of Russia and managed to win four games.

The results:
Singles (first round): Jia-Jing Lu (Chn) bt Pei-Chi Lee (Tpe) 6-0, 6-3; Mahak Jain bt Kseia Palkina (Kgz) 6-3, 6-2; Ekaterina Yashina (Rus) bt Polina Leykina (Rus) 6-3,2 -6, 6-0; Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) bt Nigina Abduraimova (Uzb) 6-2, 6-1; Jaqueline Adina Cristian (Rou) bt Beatrice Gumulya (Ina) 6-0, 6-2; Valeria Savinykh (Rus) bt Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (Fra) 6-4, 6-3; Marina Melnikova (Rus) bt Bhuvana Kalva 6-2, 6-2; Berfu Cengiz (Tur) bt Deniz Khazaniuk (Isr) 6-1, 6-3.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Katarzyna Kawa (Pol) & Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) bt Chieh-Yu Hsu (Tpe) & Prarthana Thombare 3-6, 7-5, 10-6; Mariam Bolkvadze (Geo) & Albina Khabibulina (Uzb) bt Snehal Mane & Priyanka Shah (US) 6-1, 7-5; Amina Anshba & Maria Marfutina (Rus) bt Riya Bhatia & Zeel Desai 6-4, 6-7(4), 10-1; Nika Kukharchuk (Rus) & Pei-Chi Lee (Tpe) bt Jaqueline Adina Cristian (Rou) & Valeriya Strakhova (Ukr) 6-2, 4-6, 10-6.

Mahak Jain in pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 women’s event in Pune