Karman Kaur Thandi beat fifth seed Danka Kovinic of Montenegro 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 in the second and final qualifying round of the $250,000 WTA tennis to
Karman kaur lets kuznetsova off the hook in WTA tennis in guangzhou
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Qualifier Karman Kaur Thandi pushed former world No.2 Svetlana Kuznetsova to bring out her best game and was beaten 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the $250,000 WTA tennis tournament in China on Tuesday.
It may be recalled that Sania Mirza had overcome a twisted ankle to beat the then US Open champion Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-2 in Dubai in 2005.
The 33-year-old Kuznetsova, ranked 110, converted five of 13 breakpoints as against three of seven by the wiry Karman.
The 20-year-old Karman fired four aces to two by the Russian, but the latter had a 71% first serve percentage as against 52% for Karman.
In the men’s Challenger in Romania, Sumit Nagal was beaten 6-2, 6-4 in the first round by third seed Pedro Sousa of Portugal.
In the $25,000 ITF women’s event in Australia, Rutuja Bhosale won both her singles and doubles match.
The results:
$250,000 WTA, Guangzhou, China
Singles (first round): Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Karman Kaur Thandi
3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
€43,000 Challenger men, Sibiu, Romania
Singles (first round): Pedro Sousa (Por) bt Sumit Nagal 6-2, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Jayesh Pungliya bt Vasisht Cheruku 6-3, 6-4; Adrijan Exposito (Esp) bt Tejas Chaukulkar 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi & PC Vignesh bt Simone Cacciapuoti & Nicolo Inserra (Ita) 3-6, 6-2, [10-5]; Alexander Ovcharov (Rus) & Jayesh Pungliya bt Sheil Kotecha (Ken) & Arjun Mahadevan 6-1, 6-3; Anirudh Chandrasekar & Aryan Goveas bt Tejas Chaukulkar & Vasisht Cheruku 6-2, 6-7(3), [10-6].
$25,000 ITF women, Cairns, Australia
Singles (first round): Rutuja Bhosale bt Georgia Brescia (Ita) 6-3, 6-2. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Alison Bai (Aus) & Rutuja Bhosale bt Gabriella Da Silva Fick & Sara Tomic (Aus) 6-0, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF women, Anning, China
Singles (first round): Sowjanya Bavisetti bt Chihiro Takayama (Jpn) 6-1, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Qianxin Kong (Chn) & Ashmitha
Easwaramurthi bt Yuka Hosoki (Jpn) & Si Qi Liu (Chn) 2-6, 6-3, [10-2].
$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Fanny Ostllnd (Swe) bt Snehal Mane 6-0, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Iulia Bianca Ilinca (Rou) & Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi bt Aya El Sayed (Egy) & Delana Milenkovic (Srb)
6-3, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first round): Dami Edibson Messiah (Esp) bt Likhitha Kalava 6-2, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey
Singles (first round): Niditra Rajmohan bt Zarah Mughal (GBR) 6-2, 6-1.