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After a virtual drought of tournaments on womens side this year ( no tournament since February), we finally have a series of tournaments in Maharashtra to look forward to. MSLTA will be holding 7 tournaments from next week till end January.
I am surprised though that there is no tournament at all in proper Mumbai. There has not been any since last couple of years, I think and I do not remember when did Mumbai have a mens challenger event last.
sameerph wrote:This is the entry list for next week's $10K tournament in Pune -
Except for 1 players, all are Indians. I don't know why Karman is not playing here.
She's going back to France for a couple of weeks of training. Will play the $25K(+H) Pune event from 7 Nov & a few events elsewhere in Asia after that.
Some good match-ups in second round - Riya-Vaishnavi, Rishika-Sowjanya, Prarthana-Sharmada. These could be close matches. Seeds should go thru in other matches.
The two foreigners in the singles draw were both beaten in R1, so it is an all-Indian event from here on.
Prerna Bhambri seems to have dropped out.
It should be interesting to see how the younger Indians do (although even the top seed is only 19).
bujilover wrote:Mihika beat Dhruthi in the recently concluded nationals. I expect her to repeat the result again.
Spot on , Mihika upsets second seed Dhruti 63 75. Also Sowjanya thrashed 7th seeded Rishika 61 60. 4th seeded Prarthna easily won her match 62 60 against Sharmada though.
Yes, very good to see the nice run by the 16- and 17-year-olds, Mihika and Pranjala. (Why is Zeel not playing in Pune?).
Sowjanya is an unpredictable player, and Riya seems to have run into her on one of her better days!
Yes, Sowjanya seems to have run into impressive form this week. She beat Pranjala too in straights sets. 16 year old Mihika Yadav makes her first ITF final beating Prarthana in the SF.
[SF] (WC) Mihika YADAV (IND,NR) d. (4) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,611) 64 57 61
Mihika is unranked at the moment. But, she won a round in Delhi challenger early this year which gives her 5 points and now has 7 points from this week totally to 12 points which is more than minimum requirement of 10 points for the ranking. So, she will get into rankings next week straightway inside 1000. A win in final can take her into 700's.
No. I had not that noticed that. Yes, on checking the stats, it does not look like very high - 12 today, 17 yesterday, 11 in second round. Pranjala seems to be having some trouble in her game this year after she made a challenger level SF in Aurangabad in January. It is to her credit that with all those double faults, she was able to reach SF. So, if she sorts out whatever is wrong with her she can get back on track .
