ANKITA RAINA SAILS INTO SECOND ROUND IN $125K TENNIS IN CHINA

Ankita Raina had an impressive start as she beat Tang Qianhui of China 6-2, 6-1 in the first round of the $125,000 WTA tennis tournament in Anning, China, on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old Ankita will next challenge the second seed Wang Yafan of China who bounced back from the brink of defeat to beat Danielle Lao of the US 5-7, 7-6(6), 6-4.

The results:
$125,000 WTA, Anning, China
Singles (first round): Ankita Raina bt Tang Qianhui (Chn) 6-2, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) & Irina
Khromacheva (Rus) bt Guo Shanshan (Chn) & Ankita Raina 6-3, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Nuria Parrizas-Diaz (Esp) bt Sabhyata Nihalani 6-3, 6-1; Snehal Mane bt Vanessa Pappa (Gre) 7-5, 7-6(5); Second round: Sabhyata NIhalani bt Lina BOylan (US) 6-0, 6-0; Nermeen Shawky (Egy) bt Saumya Vig 2-6, 6-1, 6-2; Snehal Mane bt Natalia Maynetto (US) 6-2, 6-4; Estella Jaeger (Ger) bt Muskan Gupta 6-0, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Akko, Israel
Qualifying singles (first round): Yuval Keren (Isr) bt Mihika Yadav 6-4, 6-3.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shelly Bereznyak (Isr) & Lina Glushko (Isr) bt Diana Borodina (Rus) & Mihika Yadav 6-1, 6-0.

$15,000 ITF women, Hua Hin, Thailand
Singles (first round): Zeel Desai bt Jiakang Li (Chn) 6-1, 6-0; Natasha Palha bt Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai (Tha) 6-3, 6-3; Sowjanya Bavisetti bt Patcharin Cheapchandej (Tha) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Qualifying singles (third and final round): Yi Tsen Cho (Tpe) bt Ramya Natarajan 6-7(6), 6-4, 3-0 (retired); Second round: Ramya Natarajan bt Jiahuan He (Chn) 6-1, 6-4; Claudia Williams (Nzl) bt Radhika Yadav 6-3, 0-6, 6-4; First round: Yi Tsen Cho (Tpe) bt Bhuvana Kalva 6-2, 7-6(1); Sarah Pang (Sgp) bt Niditra Rajmohan 6-1, 7-6(2).

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Tha) & Zeel Desai bt Mariana Correa (Ecu) & Chang Liu (Chn) 6-3, 7-5; Sowjanya Bavisetti & Ramya Natarajan bt Tamachan Momkoonthod & Chanikam Silakul (Tha) 6-2, 6-4; Lorraine Guillermo (US) & Natasha Palha bt Dan Ni Wang (Chn) & Amy Zhu (US) 6-3, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Andrijana Stoilkovic (Srb) bt Jennifer Luikham 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Second round: Jennifer Luikham bt Zeynep Cakirer (Tur) 6-1, 6-0.

$25,000 ITF men, Abuja, Nigeria
Singles (first round): Arjun Kadhe bt Diego Matos (Bra) 6-0, 7-6(4); Moez Echargui (Tun) bt Aryan Goveas 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.

Qualifying singles (second and final round): Kazuma Kawachi (Jpn) bt Rishabdev Raman 6-1, 7-5; Anurag Nenwani bt Vinod Sridhar 6-3, 6-2; First round: tukhulaJacobs (Nam) bt Hardeep Singh Sandhu 6-3, 6-4; Rishabdev Raman bt Rithwik Rajshekhar Raman 6-1, 6-2; Vinod Sridhar bt Darryl Hale (GBR) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ronnie Schneider (US) & Arjun Kadhe bt Suraj Prabodh & Hardeep Singh Sandhu 6-1, 6-2; Aryan Goveas & Anurag Nenwani bt Franco Feitt (Arg) & Emmanuel Idoko (Ngr) 6-2, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Wuhan, China
Qualifying singles (first round): Junhui Fang (Chn) bt Mohit Jain 7-5, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Thomas Statzberger (Aut) bt Manish Sureshkumar 6-1, 6-2.

Qualifying singles (second round): Ronald Slobodchikov (Rus) bt Gokul Suresh 6-0, 6-3; Marco De Rossi (Smr) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-2, 6-1; First round: Gokul Suesh bt Robert Ziganshin (Rus) 6-3, 6-3; Faris Zakaryia (Egy) bt PC Vignesh 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5); Mousa Alkotop (Jor) bt Prithvi Sekhar 6-2, 7-5; Patrick Ogier (GBR) bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi 6-1, 0-6, 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Manfred Ffellin & Pietro Licciardi (Ita) bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi & PC Vignesh 7-6(3), 6-3.

$15,000 ITF men, Kampala, Uganda
Singles (first round): Jayesh Pungliya bt David Oringa (Uga) 6-2, 6-3; Kunal Anand bt Sheil Kotecha (Ken) 7-5, 6-4.

Qualifying singles (second and final round): Vasisht Cheruku bt Felix Hutt (Ger) 6-4, 7-6(3); Phil Dimon (US) bt Prashant Sawant 6-3, 6-0; Ansu Bhuyan bt Olivier Havugimana (Rwa) 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(3); First round: Ansu Bhuyan bt Simon Peter Ayella (Uga) 1-6, 6-4, 6-1.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): VAsisht Cheruku & Prajwal Dev bt Anton Chekhov (Rus) & Aaron Cortes Alcaraz (Esp) 6-3, 6-4; Giovani Samaha (Lbn) & Kunal Anand bt Niklas JOhansson & Christoffer Solberg (Swe) 6-4, 7-6(3).

$15,000 ITF men, Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam
Singles (first round): Niki Poonacha bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4, 7-5; Alexios Halebian (US) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.

Qualifying singles (second and final round): Kazuki Nishiwaki (Jpn) bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-4, 6-3; Niki Poonacha bt Tonkla Mulada (Tha) 6-1, 6-1; First round: Paramveer Singh Bajwa bt Mariano Alberto Hasenkopf (Ger) 6-4, 3-6, 6-0; Niki Poonacha bt Ha Minh Duc Vu (Vie) 6-0, 6-1; Fitriadi M Rifqi (Ina) bt Digvijay Singh Mehta 6-2, 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Niki Poonacha & Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt RioNoguchi & Ryota Tanuma (Jpn) 7-5, 6-3; Alexio Halebian (US) & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Michale Look bt Damien Polkinghorne (Aus) 6-4, 6-4.