$15K Thailand Women's ITF Tour - May 1/7 2018

[bujilover]

There is a couple of $15K ITF tournaments in Thailand where some of our players entered. Zeel, Natasha, and Sowjanya are in the MD this week. Ramya Natarajan seeded first is in the final round of qualifying.

At $15,000 Hua Hin, Thailand (Outdoor Hard)

Singles Qualifying Draw

ROUND 1
Ramya NATARAJAN (IND) [1] BYE
Yi Tsen CHO (TPE) 6-2 7-6(1) Bhuvana KALVA (IND)
Sarah PANG (SGP) 6-1 7-6(2) Niditra RAJMOHAN (IND)
Radhika YADAV (IND) BYE

ROUND 2
Ramya NATARAJAN (IND) [1] 6-1 6-4 Jiahuan HE (CHN)
Claudia WILLIAMS (NZL) 6-3 0-6 6-4 Radhika YADAV (IND)

FINAL ROUND
Ramya NATARAJAN (IND,1091) [1] vs. Yi Tsen CHO (TPE,UNR)

[suresh]

Looks like Ramya retired in the final qualifying match. She took a medical timeout after the end of the second set and tried to continue.

Ramya NATARAJAN (IND,1091) [1] l Yi Tsen CHO (TPE,UNR) 7-6(4) 4-6 0-3 retired

Ramya has a doubles match later. I wonder if she will be able to play doubles.

[bujilover]

What an upset win for Sowjanya against the 2nd seeded local player.

[R1] Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND,1040) 1-6 6-3 6-4 Patcharin CHEAPCHANDEJ (THA,509) [2]

And an even more delightful day for our players in the first round of doubles

Zeel DESAI (IND) / Bunyawi THAMCHAIWAT (THA) 6-3 7-5 Mariana CORREA (ECU) / Chang LIU (CHN)
Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND) / Ramya NATARAJAN (IND) 6-2 6-4 Tamachan MOMKOONTHOD (THA) / Chanikarn SILAKUL (THA)
Lorraine M. GUILLERMO (USA) / Natasha PALHA (IND) 6-3 6-2 Dan Ni WANG (CHN) / Amy ZHU (USA) [2]

[bujilover]

Zeel (seeded 5th) and Natasha play their R1 singles matches on Tuesday.

[suresh]

Great win from Sowjanya. The key to a big win is to follow it up with a string of wins. Good to see Ramya back on court for doubles -- so the injury may not have been serious (or did she RamK? ).

[sameerph]

Very good win by Sowjanya after a while. Hope she builds on it now.

Zeel and Natasha also won their matches.

[R1] (5) Zeel DESAI (IND,683) d. (Q) Jiakang LI (CHN,1211) 61 60
[R1] Natasha PALHA (IND,939) d. (Q) Apichaya RUNGLERDKRIANGKRA (THA,NR) 63 63

Next,

[R2] (5) Zeel DESAI (IND,683) vs. Natasha PALHA (IND,939)

[R2] Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND,1040) vs. (Q) Xinyu CAI (CHN,NR)

[bujilover]

Winner of the above 2 matches plays each other in QF. At least, we will have one Indian in the semis.

[suresh]

Winner of the above 2 matches plays each other in QF. At least, we will have one Indian in the semis.

We'll have one if Sowjanya wins her R2 match.

[PKBasu]

I liked bujilover's implicit confidence in Sowjanya...!

[suresh]

I agree with Dinesh (bujilover). I was nitpicking. Sowjanya is a under-ranked at this point and hopefully will get back to the top 600 soon.

[sameerph]

But, you should never look beyond a round in Tennis . Sowjanya just lost the first set 2-6 against the Chinese qualifier.

Live stream of Sowjanya's match is on ITF site -

ITF Hua Hin

[PKBasu]

Yes, sadly, Sowjanya lost 26 46. I just logged in and saw them shake hands at the end of the match...

[suresh]

I think Sowjanya took a medical timeout in the first set. So she is might not be 100%.

[sameerph]

Zeel easily won against Natasha.

[R2] Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND,1040) l. (Q) Xinyu CAI (CHN,NR), 26 46

[R2] (5) Zeel DESAI (IND,683) d. Natasha PALHA (IND,939) 62 62

Next,

[QF] (5) Zeel DESAI (IND,683) vs. (Q) Xinyu CAI (CHN,NR)

Zeel has also reached the doubles SF with her Thai partner.

[bujilover]

I think Sowjanya took a medical timeout in the first set. So she is might not be 100%.

That 17 year old Chinese girl is not even ranked decent in either of the circuits (junior, pro). How unpredictable some of these Indian players are?