Prerna bhambri loses early in thailand
Four-time National champion Prerna Bhambri was beaten 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 by Watsachol Sawatdee of Thailand in the first round of the $15,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Thailand on Monday.
Meanwhile, Ramya Natarajan who as a qualifier made it to the semifinals in Gimcheon before losing to Hanna Chang of the US 2-6, 3-6 last week, got a direct entry into the $15,000 event in Yeongwol.
The results:
$15,000 ITF men, Anning, China
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & PC Vignesh bt Chukang Wang & Bingyu Yu (Chn) 6-0, 6-3; Li-Wie Tan (Tpe) & Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi bt Sida Zeng & Yanje Zheng (Chn) 6-4, 7-6(5).
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Gokul Suresh bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi 4-6, 6-0, 6-2; Prithvi Sekhar bt Jun Nan Tao (Chn) 6-3, 6-3; PC Vignesh bt Anupam Kumar 6-4, 7-6(4).
Second round: Zhou Mingzhou (Chn) bt Vimalraj Jayachandran 6-3, 6-4; Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi bt Anshumat Srivastava 7-6(5), 6-2; Gokul Suresh bt He Feng (Chn) 5-7, 6-1, 6-2; Prithvi Sekhar w.o. Xin Yang (Chn); Anupam Kumar bt Ziga Papez (Slo) 6-0, 6-3; PC Vignesh bt Shuai Xu (Chn) 6-4, 6-3.
First round: Vimalraj Jayachandran bt Daiki Kato (Jpn) 6-3 (retired); Gokul Suresh bt Ya Hui Nie (Chn) 6-4, 7-5; Fariduni Bakhodur (Tjk) bt Mohan Kiran Arunahala 6-1, 6-0.
$25,000 ITF men, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
Qualifying singles (second round): Samuel Puskar (Svk) bt Nitin Gunduboina 6-0, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Damme, Belgium
Qualifying singles (first round): Michalis Sakellaridis (Gre) bt Mihir Akolkar 6-0, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF men, Subotica, Serbia
Qualifying singles (first round): Aleksa Ciric (Srb) bt Manvir Randhawa 6-2, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF men, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Bang Shuo Yin (Tpe) bt Shahbaaz Khan 4-6, 7-5, 6-1; Kunal Anand bt Phongsapak Kerdlaphee (Tha) 6-2, 7-6(1); Naru Shirafuji (Jpn) bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-4, 6-3.
Second round: Shahbaaz Khan bt Niki Poonacha 2-6, 6-6(retired); Kunal Anand bt Suthinan Tanthaseraneewat (Tha) 6-3, 1-6, 6-3; Paramveer Singh Bajwa bt Digvijay Singh Mehta 6-2, 6-2.
First round: Shahbaaz Khan bt Wattanachai Lungkeaw (Tha) 6-2, 6-3; Yuttana Charoenphon (Tha) bt Sultan Singh Atwal 6-3, 6-1; Phogsapak Kerdlaphee (Tha) bt Amarnath Arora 6-2 (retired); Digvijay Singh Mehta bt Gregory Nitayamekin (Tha) 6-0, 6-2; Tonkla Mulada (Tha) bt Sai Saran Reddy 6-0, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF women, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Singles (first round): Watsachol Sawatdee (Tha) bt Prerna Bhambri 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jiaxi Lu (Chn) & Riya Bhatia bt Fitriani Sabatini & Fitriana Sabrina (Ina) 6-3, 6-4.
Qualifying singles (third round): Tanuchapom Yongmod bt Sonashe Bhatnagar 6-3, 6-4; Sravya Shivani bt Pat Vasuratna 7-5, 1-6, 7-5.
Second round: Jaipet Anontaweesil (Tha) Anaam Almas 6-3, 6-0; Sonashe Bhatnagar bt Aashi Kapoor 6-0, 6-1; Ya-Hsin Lee (Tpe) bt Avika Sagwal 6-3, 6-1; Sravya Shivani bt Kristin Younes (Isr) 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3.
$15,000 ITF women, Yeongwol, Korea
Qualifying singles (second round): Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Nikita Uberoi (US) 6-1, 6-4.
