With the primary draw that includes 48 gamers, it’s a a lot wanted alternative for fringe gamers to compete within the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event being staged on the Ahmedabad Tennis Basis courts from Tuesday.
With the highest 16 gamers getting a bye within the first spherical in a draw of 64, Ankita Raina, Sahaja Yamalapalli, Shrivalli Bhamidipaty and Vaidehi Chaudhari get to preserve their power, among the many Indian gamers.
Anjali Rathi infused extra life into the ranks as she beat second seed Maria Kalyakkina 7-6(1), 6-2 within the second and closing qualifying spherical. She is going to play Weronika Ewald of Poland within the first spherical of the primary occasion.
Akanksha Nitture, Humera Baharmus, Sonal Patil and Smriti Bhasin had been the opposite Indian gamers to qualify for the primary draw.
Indian girls’s tennis would aspire to churn out high quality from amount as 18 gamers attempt to play their finest sport for a collective progress.
With the highest eight gamers spearheaded by Arina Rodionova of Australia and Carlota Cirez of Spain figuring within the top-300 of world rating, the remainder of the sector would get a radical actuality verify in regards to the high quality of its sport.
Total, it must be an entertaining week of tennis that may function an excellent preparation for the Indian workforce within the run as much as the Billie Jean King Cup Asia-Oceania occasion scheduled to be held in Pune in April.
The seedings: 1. Arina Rodionova (Aus), 2. Carlota Cirez (Esp), 3. Ekaterina Makarova, 4. Mei Yamaguchi (Jpn), 5. Haruka Kaji (Jpn), 6. Amandine Hesse (Fra), 7. Ankita Raina, 8. Maria Tkacheva.
Revealed – February 24, 2025 07:04 pm IST
