$10K Women's ITF -- Pune (Oct 25)

Post by **jayakris** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:10 pm

Entry list:

$10,000 Pune
Main Draw

1 CHAKRAVARTHI, Rushmi IND 325
2 AMANMURADOVA, Akgul UZB 327
3 BHAMBRI, Ankita IND 413
4 VAKHARIA, Megha IND 468
5 LAKHANI, Isha IND 492
6 JAYALAKSAMY, Jayaram-Sai IND 493
7 GREAU, Stephanie FRA 559
8 VITAYAVIROJ, Thassha THA 611
9 PHADKE, Sonal IND 651
10 VENKATARAMAN, Archana IND 670=
11 CHOPTANG, Wilawan THA 696
12 BHAMBRI, Sanaa IND 715
13 MANOHAR, Geeta IND 743
14 RAI, Iciri IND 771=
15 PEREIRA, Liza IND 780
16 CELANI, Cristina ITA 866
17 TAKEMOTO, Minori JPN 908
18 GOSWAMI, Parul IND 979=

Qualifyng

1 REDDY, Punam IND 979=
2 PATEL, Karishma IND 983
3 NAGANO, Chie JPN 1000
4 NAGRAJ, Sandhya IND 1006=
5 GOUTHAM, Sheethal IND 1018
6 RAO, Preeti IND 1031=
7 CATTANEO, Celine FRA 1047=
8 FEUERSTEIN, Claire FRA 1071
9 CHHEDA, Krushmi IND 1098=
10 KUMAR, Rati IND 1109=
11 UCHIDA, Yuko JPN 1128=
12 RAJUR, Chirashantha IND 1148=
13 RAJUR, Anupama IND 1177=
14 TULPULE, Radhika IND
15 LIPOVSKA, Andrea AUS
16 IYER, Tara IND
17 PHADKE, Sagarika IND
18 RANGANATHAN, Madura IND
19 WEIGERT, Anabella GER
20 KOMMIREDDI, Pooja IND
21 RAM, Oormila IND
22 RANA, Neha IND

That is a terrific field, with Akgul, Thassha, Isha, Ankita, Rushmi, Meghaa, Sanaa, Sonal - all capable of winning it. The best field in an Indian $10K in a long time.

Nice to see Meghaa beack in India again.

nkoth · Post by **nkoth** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:21 pm

Wow, my jaw dropped as I was going down the names -- this is one TOUGH $10K!

...And one other big name hiding toward the bottom is Tara Iyer, who has no success on the tour in the States. Guess she realized it's time to try something new. Too bad she picked such a ridiculously good $10K though!

-neil

Post by **jayakris** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:40 pm

Oh, I had not seen Tara's name in there .. Time she came to India for some events .. It's been quite a while since she played there.

Meghaa withdrew this tuesday (she also withdrew from the Mumbai challenger which had her name at first).. That is a pity. Hope she is OK.

Jay

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:51 am

The qualifying results as reported by The Hindu;

Qualifying: Ist round: Dakshaa Mulay bt Indira Jayaraman 6-2 6-2; Natana Karsolia bt Oormila Ram 7-5, 6-1; Shweta Kakhankdi bt Janaki Rajapurkar 6-1, 6-1; Parija Maloo bt Bharathy Pathasarthy 6-3, 6-3; Pooja Kommireddi bt Asha Nandakumar 6-4, 7-6(2).

Final qualifying round:

Vandana Murali bt Rati Kumar 6-1 6-3; Nadini Perumal bt Kamal Preet Bhullar 6-0, 6-1; Anupama Rajur bt Sandri Gangotri 4-6, 6-4, 6-1;
Pooja Kommireddi bt Asha Nadkumar 6-0, 6-2; Parija Maloo bt Sayali Bhilare 6-0, 6-2; Shweta Kakhandki bt Harpreet Gill 6-0, 6-0; Arthi Venkatraman bt Naina Karsolia 6-1, 6-1; Andrea Lipovska (Aus) bt Daksha Mulay 6-1, 6-2.

Doubles: Sandhya Nagraj/ Vandana Murali bt Harpreet Gill/Naina Karsolia 4-0, 4-0.

Kathir

gvhvhg · Post by **gvhvhg** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:54 pm

id love to an indian win this!!

Post by **jayakris** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:18 am

Here are the draws and monday results:

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1 Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)  d. W Sagarika Phadke (IND)     60 60
  Iciri Rai (IND)           d.   Krushmi Chheda (IND)      63 62
  Parul Goswami (IND)       d.   Karishma Patel (IND)      64 62
Q Shweta G Kakhandki (IND)  d. 7 Archana venkatraman (IND) 75 16 64
  Wilawan Choptang (THA)    d. 4 Sai Jayalakshmy (IND)     75 63
W Madura Ranganathan (IND)  d.   Geeta Manohar (IND)       75 62
W Radhika Tulpule (IND)     d. Q Nandini Perumal (IND)     64 76(0)
8 Sonal Phadke (IND)        d. Q Pooja Kommireddy (IND)    64 63
5 Isha Lakhani (IND)        d.   Sandhya Nagraj (IND)      62 64
  Punam Reddy (IND)         d. Q Arthi Venkatraman (IND)   64 60
Q Andrea Lipovska (AUS)     d.   Liza pereira (IND)        62 16 63
  Sanaa Bhambri (IND)       d. 3 Ankita Bhambri (IND)      64 62
6 Thassha Vitayaviroj (THA) d. W Tara Iyer (IND)           76(3) 64
Q Vandana Murali (IND)      d. Q Parija Maloo (IND)        62 63
  Preeti Rao (IND)          d. Q Anupama Rajur (IND)       64 75
2 Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) d.   Sheethal Goutham (IND)    64 63

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1 A.Amanmuradova/ Sai.J  d. Q Shweta.G.K./ A.Nandakumar 60 63
Q V.Murali/ S.Nagraj     d.   S.Goutham/ K.Patel        62 64
4 G.Manojhar/ N.Perumal  d.   P.Goswami/ S.Gangothri    64 63
W M.Ranganathan/ T.Iyer  d.   S.Phadke/ R.Tulpule       63 06 76(4)
  Archana.V/ Arthi.V     d.   A.Rajur/ C.Rajur          64 62
3 A.Bhambri/ L.Pereira   d. W P.Maloo/ D.Mulay          64 62
  K.Chheda/ P.Reddy      d.   P.Kommireddy/ A.Lipovska  62 63
2 W.Choptang/ Thassha.V  d.   I.Rai/ P.Rao              61 62

Big win by Sanaa over sister Ankita .. Sanaa seems to be in roaring form lately.

Updated after the Tuesday matches ..

Jay

suresh · Post by **suresh** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:27 am

An interesting (potential) QF match between Isha and Sanaa in the offing. Lets see
if qualifier Vandana Murali can take out Thaasha (sorry, jiro). I can't see anyone
beating Akgul in the top half.

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:56 am

Great win by Sanaa ... Both sisters ranking difference r almost 300 places (Ankita's 422 and Sanaa's 714) ... Right now Sanna is tremendous form ... The way she demolished her own sis is mind blowing ... Ya Suresh right now it looks difficult to find Akgul Amanmuradova match ... Hope some one rises for the occassion.

Jaydeep.

jirobkk · Post by **jirobkk** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:56 am

suresh wrote:An interesting (potential) QF match between Isha and Sanaa in the offing. Lets see
if qualifier Vandana Murali can take out Thaasha (sorry, jiro). I can't see anyone
beating Akgul in the top half.

That would be fine and I don't think Thassha can win if Iyer is on.

The better will win.

Post by **jayakris** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:02 am

Updated the scores from Tuesday in the draw above ..

Damn .. It took a long time to find the Tuesday results. Finally had to go looking for Marathi newespapers from Pune .. Can one of you who knows Marathi check if I read the scores correctly from http://www.esakal.com/today/krida10.html (that link may go away later today)

Anyway, GK Shwetha took out Archana and Wilawan took out Sai -- neither surprised me much. Big win for GKS though! Punam's win over Arthi also looks good. (Assuming I got all those scores correct!) .. I think Thassha beat Tara -- I badly wanted Tara to win

Jay

jirobkk · Post by **jirobkk** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:13 am

Thanks Jay.

I watched Tara play in JR G1 in Pattaya this year, she is talented and good looking player.

Lucky that Thassha and Wilawan can move into second round.

Post by **jayakris** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:28 am

Tara has been injured for several months this year (some sort of knee problem) but seems to be just beginning to play well again .. This was a good match it seems - Thassha is a tough player.

Jay

jaydeep · Post by **jaydeep** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:23 pm

Jay ur understanding of Marathis is good ...

May be interacting with Harsh horn ur skill ...

Joke a part all scores r perfectly written.

I watched match Tara played with Thassha ... Both players played very entertaining tennis ... Thassha won crucial points, I think Tara's inexperianced matter in the end ... But yes this gal having tremendous potential to shine ... I also watched Radhika Tulpule's match (Offcourse she is our local gal ...

), she is coming back from injury ... So we all were very much interested in her performance ... And she played very consistent tennis, still some rustiness in her game ... But she doesn't loose her fighting spirit in injury lay off ... That was heartening scene ... But day's most entertaining match was in between Shweta and Archana ... It was lovely to see how this little teenager playing so much flowing tennis against seasoned Archana ... May be many forum members think second set 6 - 1 score against Shweta was one sided score ... No guys that wasn't truth ... We all literaly glued to sit in that set ... This set was only 7 games long, but in average every single game lasted almost 10 mins ... How Shweta fought ... Only Amazing ... She ran for every point all over the court and in that process she made sure Archana also ran everywhere ... Still after loosing that second set, we all were sure Shweta will win this match ... Becoz at that time Archana was panting and Shweta was cool ... Like knowing she did the damage to Archana to win this match ... Amazing stuff guys ... After watching this match another entry added to my favourite list ...

Jaydeep.

Post by **jayakris** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:49 pm

Has Shwetha improved on her physique? From what you write, it looks like she has. A year back when I saw her pictures (and based on a couple of press comments) she had to drop a little weight but otherwise had all the ingredients to do well. Looks like she has done the work? ... If so, great. She may be among the most talented names to emerge in the last 18 months or so when our production of new names appeared not as great as in the two years prior.

Jay