$125K WTA Mumbai Open, Nov. 20-26, 2017

[bujilover]

Watching Rutuja's match and her opponent Khazaniuk is so annoying - cheering herself for each and every point. You know that you are playing a lower ranked player already. And there is not much crowd here even for Rutuja's match. Sameer, I assume you are there!

I hope Rutuja wins the second set - she just lost the first set by an iffy line call from the chair umpire. And the center court has so much noise with all the crows around - I wonder how the WTA approved of this infrastructure - yesterday one of the players shared the center court views on Instagram with apartment buildings bordered around the court.

[sameerph]

No. I did not go there today.

[R1] (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,604) l. (Q) Deniz Khazaniuk (ISR,270) 46 36

Decent performance by Rutuja considering the ranking difference.

But, still another loss for us.

[bujilover]

Prarthana and Kuwata spent as little as 59 minutes on court for their doubles R1. Frustrating results from PGT - how can it be possible to not even force any of her losses into STB? How can playing at home courts not give advantage to even win a set? I understand it’s a different partner week-in week-out but at the end of the day most of her partners are very well ranked and established in the CH circuit.

[bujilover]

1. We need the thread title changed to 125K as I am sure it was a mistake by Indian organizers if they were responsible for updating WTA page(the one Sameer pointed out).

2. Karman/Pranjala are putting up a great show against Stollar/Naiktha - at least something for us to cheer for. 6-3 2-2 so far.

[bujilover]

Karman-Pranjala one game away from sealing this R1 doubles match. The pair broke both Stollar and Naiktha once in the second set.

[sameerph]

From 5-2 up, they have missed 6 match points in 3 games and it is 5-5 now in the second set.

[bujilover]

Pranjala/Karman wins 6-3 7-5 Great win at the WTA125 level. Karman now has a chance to avenge her singles loss against Jakupovic/Khromacheva in the QF.

[sameerph]

Phew, they missed 3 more match points with Nathika serving at 5-6, 0-40 but finally won the deciding point. Won on their 10th match point.

But, finally a win for us in this tournament. Well done, Karman and Pranjala.

[Daniel]

Khazaniuk is so annoying - cheering herself for each and every point. You know that you are playing a lower ranked player already.

I couldn't help remembering the above comment when I saw this article in the Times of India today:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spo ... 748878.cms

Somehow her antics seemed to have made quite a different impression on the writer

[Ayush1234567]

Meanwhile Ankita Raina has taken a 2-0 lead

[Ayush1234567]

Ankita was broken but broke back again and is 5-1

[sameerph]

From 5-1 up for Ankita it is back to 5-5 in the first set. She missed a few set points in last few games.

[Daniel]

Ankita just won the first set 76(2).

So glad that she's making me eat my words! She must be really eager to grab the India #1 status back, and based on Karman's showing this week, the latter does not seem ready for it just yet.

[suresh]

A little bit of competition for the number one spot is good. Go Ankita.

[Saniapower]

2 lovely back to back forehand cc from Ankita. 4-1 up