Sahaja Yamalapalli will open in opposition to high seed Carlota Cirez of Spain within the $30,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match to be performed on the Tennis Venture, Baliyawas, from Tuesday.
It will likely be one other good alternative for Sahaja and the remainder of the Indian gamers to capitalise on the house benefit and enhance their standing on the WTA rating record.
It will likely be a difficult week within the presence of top of the range gamers from around the globe, particularly the Russians and the Japanese, however that might solely enhance the standard of the Indian gamers.
The highest quarter has Vaidehi Chaudhari and Shrivalli Bhamidipaty additionally, other than Sahaja. It will likely be fascinating to see how the Indian gamers address the newly resurfaced courts that play true, sluggish and excessive.
The nation’s No.1 Ankita Raina is the one Indian participant to be seeded, at No.7 and can play compatriot Riya Bhatia within the first spherical. Zeel Desai, Smriti Bhasin and Aditi Rawat are the opposite wild card entrants other than Riya.
Solely Aditi has her first spherical predominant draw match in opposition to fourth seed Haruka Kaji of Japan on Tuesday. Thus, the remainder of the gamers can have another day to sharpen their kind and health.
Humera Bharmus, Yashaswini Panwar, Shruti Ahlawat, Pooja Ingale, Akanksha Nitture and Prathyusha Rachapudi have reached the third and ultimate qualifying spherical. That may imply at the least another Indian in the primary draw, as Pooja and Akanksha meet one another within the ultimate spherical. The opposite 5 have additionally been enjoying superb high quality and thus it shouldn’t be a shock if extra Indian gamers make the reduce.
It will likely be an amazing likelihood for the captain of the Indian group for the Billie Jean King Cup, Vishal Uppal, who can also be the Match Director, to look at the gamers and gauge the standard of their sport and health, earlier than the Asia-Oceania occasion scheduled in Pune in April.
The seedings: 1. Carlota Cirez (Esp), 2. Ekaterina Makarova, 3. Mei Yamaguchi (Jpn), 4. Haruka Kaji (Jpn), 5. Kristina Dmitruk (Blr), 6. Amandine Hesse (Fra), 7. Ankita Raina, 8. Mariia Tkacheva.
Revealed – March 03, 2025 08:01 pm IST
