Third seed Ankita Raina warmed up for the harder challenges forward by beating Ya-Hsuan Lee 6-1, 7-6(7) within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF ladies’s event on the Indore Tennis Membership on Tuesday.
From 5-2 within the second set, Ankita misplaced her approach briefly to path 5-6. Within the eventual tie-break, she slipped from being 6-2 to 6-7, earlier than saving the set level and shutting out the match by profitable the following three factors.
Ankita will subsequent face the winner of the match between two qualifiers, Michika Ozeki and Ekaterina Yashina.
One other wild card entrant, Riya Bhatia was crushed 6-3, 6-2 by sixth seed Sohyun Park of Korea.
In doubles pre-quarterfinals, Zeel Desai and Sahaja Yamalapalli beat third seeds Polina Iatcenko and Ekaterina Yashina in straight units. Zeel and Sahaja will face one another within the singles first spherical on Wednesday.
The outcomes:
Singles (first spherical): Yasmine Mansouri (Fra) bt Pehal Kharadkar 6-2, 6-0; Justina Mikulskyte (Ltu) bt Dayeon Again (Kor) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; Ankita Raina bt Ya-Hsuan Lee (Tpe) 6-1, 7-6(7); Sohyun Park (Kor) bt Riya Bhatia 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Diva Bhatia & Kashish Bhatia 6-1, 6-1; Zeel Desai & Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Polina Iatcenko & Ekaterina Yashina 6-4, 6-2; Mei Hasegawa (Jpn) & Saumya Vig bt Humera Baharmus & Pooja Ingale 6-1, 4-6, [10-5]; Thasaporn Naklo & Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Tha) bt Ayumi Koshishi (Jpn) & Anastasia Zolotareva 4-6, 6-0, [10-8].
