$15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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$15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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There are 3 weeks of $15K tournaments in Sri Lanka starting this week where lots of Indian players are playing.

These are these week's results so far -

[R1] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND, 531) d. Yuqi Sheng (CHN, 1110) 61 76(3)
[R1] Ramya Natarajan (IND, 1032) d. Rishika sunkara (IND,1053) 62 60
[R1] (8) Natasha Palha (IND, 750) d. Teertha Iska (IND,UNR) 60 62
[R1] Nidhi Chilumula (IND, 857) d. Linnea Malmqvist (SWE,711) 36 76(6) 60
[R1] (5) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND, 684) d. Jiakang Li (CHN, 1211) 63 61
[R1] Jennifer Luikham (IND, UNR) d. Dan Ni Wang (CHN, 867) 64 62

Good wins by Nidhi and Jennifer against higher ranked players and expected ones for others.

Next,

[R2] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND, 531) VS Ramya Natarajan (IND, 1032)
[R2] Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND, 684) VS Rushri Wijesundera (USA, 1134)
[R2] (5) Natasha Palha (IND, 750) VS Jennifer Luikham (IND, UNR)
[R2] Nidhi Chilumula (IND, 857) VS Tamara Barad Itzhaki (ISR, UNR)
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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One of our players should get to the Final round at least!
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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I hope you meant finals as these are not qualifiers
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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[R2] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND, 531) leads Ramya Natarajan (IND, 1032) 64 20
[R2] Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND, 684) trails Rushri Wijesundera (USA, 1134) 25
[R2] Jennifer Luikham (IND, UNR) d. (5) Natasha Palha (IND, 750) 60 63
[R2] Nidhi Chilumula (IND, 857) d. Tamara Barad Itzhaki (ISR, UNR) 64 61

2 other R2 matches were postponed to tomorrow due to rain.

Excellent win by 18 year old Jennifer.Like Nandini, Jennifer has played in Europe - Turkey and Romania all this year- playing qualifying week in and week out. She has 1 main draw win at $15K and qualified thru to a $25K once which gives 1 point each. So, I think she will get into rankings now.

[QF] Jennifer Luikham (IND, UNR) vs. (4) Tamara CUROVIC (SRB,644)

[QF] Nidhi Chilumula (IND, 857) vs. (2) Josephine BOUALEM (FRA,606)
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Rain played spoilsport? Rutuja joins our girls for week 2. And Riya is not in the entry list for week 2 but still entered for week 3.
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Yes, rain washed out entire day's play today. Not even second round matches are completed with Saturday approaching here.

Not only Rutuja, Pranjala and Zeel also join next week.
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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sameerph wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2017 2:52 pm Not only Rutuja, Pranjala and Zeel also join next week.
Yikes! For some reason, I thought both Pranjala and Zeel are in week 1 already.
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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2 remaining second round matches got completed today morning.

[R2] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND, 531) d. Ramya Natarajan (IND, 1032) 64 62
[R2] Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND, 684) l
Rushri Wijesundera (USA, 1134) 36 12 retd.

[QF] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND,531) vs. Rushri Wijesundera (USA,1134)

18 year old Jennifer Luikham took the first set 62 against 4th seed Curovic and rain interrupted again.
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Full list of the results today. Riya's QF will be played on Sunday. Jennifer Luikham lost a close one with equal number of breaks traded and points being 85 - 87. An old video on her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Wteb7VdhU

[R2] Riya Bhatia (IND, 531) d Ramya Natarajan (IND, 1032) 6-4 6-2
[R2] Dhruthi Tatachar (IND, 684) l Rushri Wijesundera (USA, 1134) 3-6 1-2 RTD
[QF] Jennifer Luikham (IND, UNR) l Tamara Čurović (SRB, 644) 6-2 4-6 4-6
[QF] Nidhi Chilumula (IND, 857) l (2) Josephine BOUALEM (FRA,606) 6-7(5) 1-6


[QF] Riya Bhatia (IND, 531) vs Rushri Wijesundera (USA, 1134) 4-6 6-4 4-2
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Close loss for Jennifer against a player ranked close to top 500. She looks to be another talented teenager coming up.

Riya's QF will be continued tomorrow. If she wins that QF and the SF later in the day, she may have to play the final tomorrow itself ( weather permitting)
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Riya completed her QF win

[QF] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND, 589) d. Rushri Wijesundera (USA, 1134) 46 64 63

Up against a British qualifier in a match which starts shortly.

[SF] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND,589) vs. (Q) Alice Gillan ( GBR,NR)
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Riya is in the finals now

[SF] Riya Bhatia(IND, 531) d Alice Gillian (GBR, UNR) 6-4 6-2
[F] Riya Bhatia (IND, 531) VS Josephine Boualem (FRA, 606)
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Good that Riya wrapped up her SF easily as final to be played later today at 4.30 pm against an opponent who is better rested.
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Good to see topseeded Riya enter the final comfortably.
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Re: $15K ITF Womens Sri Lanka (Clay), October 2017

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Riya was leading 6-5 in the first set trying to serve out for the set when the final was suspended and will be started tomorrow morning.
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