The Indian duo Ankita Raina and Prarthana G Thombare has won the Solapur Open ITF $25k doubles, defeating Priska Nugroho and Ekatarina Yashina. It was Ankita’s 5th doubles title this year and Prarthana’s 3rd. It was an easy straight sets victory by the Indian pair 6-1, 6-2. In the singles event, Ankita Raina was the only Indian to reach the
Second seed Vaidehi Chaudhari was at her fighting best as she beat the top seed Ksenia Laskutova 7-5, 6-4 to clinch the title in the $15,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament at the City Centre Tennis Complex in Gwalior on Sunday. Watched by an appreciative audience which came alive as the match hotted up, Vaidehi bounced back from 1-4 down and
By Sujoy Roy | AITA Sahaja Yamalapalli continued her excellent run till the very last day of the tournament and emerged as champion conquering fourth seed Viktoria Morvayova 6-3 7-6 (5) in the Singles final at The Tennis Project, ITF $25k Tennis Tournament in Gurgaon, on Sunday 3rd July Sahaja started the tournament with a dominant win over last tournament’s
Garmany’s Emily Seibold defeated number one seeded local girl Zeel Desai in the singles final of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Ahmedabad to lift the champion’s trophy today. The tournament, which began on 21st February in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city, came to conclusion with the 22-year-old Seibold winning comfortably in straight sets 6-2, 6-1. This is Seibold’s maiden ITF title of her
Top seeded Rutuja Bhosale , second seeded Zeel Desai , third seeded Soujanya Bavisetti and sixth seeded Vaidehi Chaudari stormed into the ladies singles semifinal of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Solapur being played at the MSLTA Solapur District Complex. In singles quarterfinals top seeded Rutuja Bhosale blanked our Denmark’s eighth seeded Elena Jamshidi 6-2 6-0. Second seeded Zeel Desai was
Pranjala Yadlapalli, who, after having played two back to back three setters in her quarterfinal and semifinal matches and suffering cramps, dreaded yet another three setter in the title clash against statemate Sowjanya Bhavisetti. Perhaps she had planned accordingly as after being 3-5 down in the first set, went all out to claim the set 7-5 and breezed through the
The tennis buffs got their heart’s fill witnessing an action-packed quarterfinal bout between fourth seed Pranjala Yadlapalli and sixth seed Vaidehi Chaudhari with the former winning the battle of nerves that lasted two hours and 27 minutes. The 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4 verdict put the 22-year-old into the semifinals of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Bengaluru at the KSLTA Stadium in
Akanksha Nitture took to tennis when she was just five year old. Her father, a tennis player himself, quit his job and took to coaching, with an aim to train his daughter. Thirteen years later, she played the biggest match of her ITF career thus far and that too with an upset victory over her experienced rival and eighth seed
Renne Singla and Laalitya Kalluri scored upset victories to enter the second round of the qualifiers of the ITF Women’s $15,000 Bengaluru on Sunday. While Renne sent the fourth seed Smriti Bhasin home with a 6-4, 7-5 win, Laalitya won against sixth-seeded Niditra Rajmohan in three sets 6-1, 2-6, 10-6. Renne, the 17-year-old lass from Haryana depended on her deep
By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA India’s Sowjanya Bavisetti qualified for the main draw of ITF Women’s $60,000 Collonge- Bellerive event in Switzerland today after she won the Qualifying second round in straight sets 6-2, 6-1 against Slovak tennis player Victoria Morvayova. It took only one hour and 19 minutes for Bavisetti to finish off the proceedings at her final qualifying