Karman Kaur meets Prarthana Thombare in first round NEW DELHI, JULY 27: The improved challenge with the inclusion of quality players like Nicha Lertpitaksinchai of Thailand and Prarthana Thomabre, as the top two seeds could improve the overall quality of play in the second $10,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament to be staged at the DLTA Complex here from Monday. While Nicha will wait for the qualifier to compete on Tuesday, Prarthana, the second best Indian behind Ankita Raina, will open her challenge on court No.1 against the 16-year-old Karman Kaur Thandi, on Monday. The six-feet tall Karman, a student of Ryan International School in Vasant Kunj, who trains at the Team Tennis Academy under coach Aditya Sachdeva, had given a good account of her game while losing the semifinals in the third set tie-break against the eventual champion Kim Dabin of Korea. If Karman steps up her game, it could be a lively contest against the athletic Prarthana who competes with considerable intensity. Prarthana has also been getting good results in recent months and should be quite confident of her game against a junior who is only playing her third international women’s tournament. The other singles match on the opening day will feature, the champion of a similar event here last year, Bhuvana Kalva against Kanami Tsuji of Japan, a talented left-hander with a strong game who had also made the semifinals last week. Rushmi Chakravarthi, a champion of dozens of such events in singles and doubles over the years, who had made Kanami Tsuji sweat in the pre-quarterfinals, will have to negotiate another round in the qualifying event to make the main draw. Abbie Myers of Australia, Yukina Saigo of Japan, Amrita Mukherjee, Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy, Vaniya Dangwal, Sai Samhitha, Damini Sharma, Vanshika Sawhney and Likitha Shetty will be some of the other prominent players, competing in the final qualifying round on the morrow. Interestingly, Kim Dabin is likely to play the top seed in the second round, as both are drawn to play qualifiers in the first. In other tricky first round matches, Nidhi Chilumula will be challenged by Sharrmadaa Baluu and Rutuja Bhosale will open against the finalist Katherine Ip of Hong Kong, In short, it should be another week of more lively action. The seedings: 1. Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (Tha), 2. Prarthana Thombare, 3. Peangtarn Plipuech (Tha), 4. Natasha Palha, 5. Rishika Sunkara, 6. Shweta Rana, 7. Nidhi Chilumula, 8. Wang Xi-Yao (Chn). The results: Qualifying event (second round): Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Shehnaz Singh 6-1, 6-1; Vasavi Ganesan bt Akshara Iska 6-3, 1-0 (retired); Arantxa Andrady bt Preethi Srinivasan 6-0, 6-2; Abbie Myers (Aus) bt Theiviya Selvarajoo (Mas) 6-1, 6-3; Yukina Saigo (Jpn) bt Sharon Sanchana Paul 7-6(3), 6-4; Arushi Bhasin bt Jyothi Manjunath 6-4, 6-1; Amrita Mukherjee bt Arthi Muniyan 6-3, 6-0; teertha Iska bt Srishti Slaria 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy bt Disha Satish Agarwal 6-0, 6-0; Jennifer luikham bt Tanvee Bose 7-5, 6-1; Vaniya Dangwal bt Swetha Sree Hari 3-1 (retired); Sai Samhitha bt Sahan Shetty 6-1, 6-1 Damini Sharma bt Vasanti Shinde 6-1, 6-4; Preethi Ujjini bt Simran Wadhwa 6-4, 6-0; Vanshika Sawhney bt Rishika Ravindran 3-6, 6-3, 7-5; Likitha Shetty bt Vineeta Singh 6-1, 2-0 (retired).
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:24:32 +0000
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