Tag: ITF Women’s

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

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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

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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

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Saumya Vig and Japan’s Lisa-Marie Rioux fought back from 5-1 down in the second set to score a 6-2, 7-6(3) victory over Elena Jamshidi and Sofia Nami Samavati of Denmark in the doubles first round of the $15,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament here on Tuesday. The results: $15,000 ITF women, Erwitte, Germany: First round: Lissa-Marie Rioux (Jpn) & Saumya Vig

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA The second-round match between India’s Ankita Raina and Polish Katarzyna Kawa got suspended midway at the ITF W100 event in Landisville, Pennsylvania after two hours and 12 minutes of action on court. Raina facing the 176th ranked Kawa got off to a slow start and lost the first set 3-6. Kawa made five double faults

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA After qualifying for the main draw of the ITF W100 at Landisville, India’s highest-ranked player in the world, Ankita Raina won her first-round tie in straight sets 6-3, 6-2 against Mexico’s Renata Zarazua who is ranked 122 in the world in the singles and advanced to the second round at Koser Jeweler Tennis Challenge in

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s Karman Kaur Thandi pocketed a comfortable straight sets win, 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and seven minutes, over her Czech opponent Laetitia Pulchartova at the ITF Women’s $15,000 event in Monastir, Tunisia. Ranked 634th in the WTA singles rankings, Thandi won all of her eight service games and managed to break her rival Pulchartova

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Top seeds Rutuja Bhosale of India and Emily Webley Smith of Great Britain lifted the doubles title  at the $ 25000 KPIT –MSLTA  ITF WTT Cup tennis championships organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana and played on the Deccan Gymkhana tennis courts. In the doubles finals played Rutuja Bhosale and Emily Webley-Smith won their second 25K event on

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Three Indians – fourth seeded and local favourite Rutuja Bhosale, seventh seeded Zeel Desai and Wildcard Vaidehi Chaudhari – entered the singles quarterfinals  of the $ 25,000 KPIT–MSLTA  ITF WTT Cup tennis championships organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana and played on the Deccan Gymkhana tennis courts. In the second round matches, local favorite Rutuja Bhosale ended the

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On a day which saw seven foreigners enter the second round, local favourite Rutuja Bhosale remained the lone Indian player to enter the second round of the $25000 KPIT ?MSLTA  ITF WTT Cup tennis championships organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana and played on the Deccan Gymkhana tennis courts. There will be Seven Indians in the second round

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