India’s Ankita Srivalli’s victorious campaign continues
2 min readITF World Tennis Tour Women’s W-35 Tennis Tournament.
Narendra Bhale
Indore: India’s Ankita Raina and Srivalli Rashmika displayed their strong game and won the quarters of the women’s singles category in the ITF World Tennis Tour W-35 $ 25000 prize money women’s tennis tournament sponsored by Madhya Pradesh Tennis Association and Indore Tennis Club under the auspices of the Indian Tennis Federation. Entered the finals. Second seeded Slovenia’s Jakupovic, fourth seeded Thailand’s Manchaya Savangkau, fifth seeded Lithuania’s Justyna Mikulskite also entered the last eight with easy wins.
In the singles pre-quarterfinal matches of this prestigious tennis event being played at Indore Tennis Club, Ankita Raina, one of the top female players of India, easily defeated Ekaterina of Russia 6-3, 6-2 in a match that lasted one hour and 9 minutes. Defeated by. Ankita played a very composed game against the Russian player and did not hurry. He scored more points on excellent ground strokes and first serve. Ankita did not commit a single double fault in the entire match. Whereas the Russian player made 2 double faults and played many bad shots, for which he had to pay the price. Whereas Srivalli Rashmika, who caused a spectacular upset in the first round, had to face a lot of difficulty in defeating Slovakia’s Victoria Moravyova. In this marathon match that lasted for almost two hours, Srivalli won 6-1, 2-6, 6-2. After winning the first set easily in 33 minutes, Srivalli made a lot of mistakes in the second set, and committed six double faults, which Slovakia’s Victoria took advantage of and won the second set, leveling the match at 1-1. But in the third set, Srivalli made a strong comeback and won the match.
While second seed Delilah Jakupovic of Slovenia defeated unseeded Mei Yamaguchi of Japan 6-4, 6-2 in the pre-quarterfinal match, fourth seed Manchaya Sawangkaew of Thailand defeated Sahaja Yamalapalli of India 6-1, 6-2. -4, fifth seeded Lithuania’s Justyna Mikulskite beat France’s Yasmin Mansouri 6-3, 7-5, seventh seeded Russia’s Polina Ithatsenko defeated Korea’s Yeon Woo Ku in three sets 1-6, 6- 1, 6-1 and made it to the last eight.
Nakalo and Jacqueline made a reversal
Two major upsets were also seen in the singles category. Thailand’s Naklo Yasaporn was eliminated from the competition after defeating sixth seed Sohyun Park 6-4, 7-5. Jacqueline Kabaz of Sweden defeated eighth seeded Diana Marsikevisa of Latvia in a tough match 7-6(2), 6-2 and made her place in the quarter-finals.