ITF Women China- $60K Luan (May 7), $25K Wuhan (May 14)

[sameerph]

Ankita wins a long 1 hour 14 mins first set 76(5).

Karman and Dart have completed 2 sets in the same time. 62 26. On to the third there.

[sameerph]

Karman down a break 2-3 in the third set.

Ankita at 3-3 in the second set.

[sameerph]

All over for Karman.

[QF] (5) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,270) l. (4) Harriet DART (GBR,214) 62 26 36

Disappointing end after a very good start. I watched the first few games where Karman was firing on all cylinders and later part of third set when Karman was making a lot more errors and Dart playing a smart defensive game. Karman needs to somehow have more control over her game without sacrificing her weapons - big serve and forehand and she will be ready to move towards top 200.

Ankita too has lost the second set 3-6.

[Observer]

Ankita broken in 3rd set. trailing 3-2

[Observer]

And she breaks back. 3-3 now!

[Observer]

And she gets broken again. 3-4 now!

[Observer]

And she breaks back 4-4. Both players have broken each other on the last 4 points. This is very unusual, is Ankita's serve worse than her overall game?

[jayakris]

Ouch. Did I hear it right, when Ankita said "are you f-----g blind or what?" to the ump? ... she needs to watch her words. 5-4 on serve in the 3rd.

[jayakris]

Ankita really played a poor tiebreaker, after being up a minibreak early. I think she lost 6 of the last 7 points to lose the third set tiebreaker 3-7. Missed some shots unnecessarily and gave it away. Oh well.

[sameerph]

That is very uncharacteristic of Ankita to play a poor tie break ( and also the earlier outbreak on umpire). Perhaps, 7th straight week of playing and being all alone travelling for such a long period has taken it's toll. Now, she will have to hope that she has done enough to make it to Wimbledon qualies. A win yesterday would have sealed it for sure.

She had made it to the doubles final to be played later today. Karman and her partner lost in the SF.

[SF] Harriet DART (GBR) / Ankita RAINA (IND) [3] 2-6 7-5 [10-5] Shuo FENG (CHN) / Jia-Qi KANG (CHN)

[SF] Fangzhou LIU (CHN) / Fang Ying XUN (CHN) 6-3 6-7(4) [10-6] Hanyu GUO (CHN) / Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) [4]

[bujilover]

Ankita seems to do well with her British doubles partners, takes the title here in straight sets

Great week for both of our players. Next week, Karman and Rutuja are in Wuhan MD

[sameerph]

Yes, doubles title for Ankita.

[F] Harriet DART (GBR) / Ankita RAINA (IND) [3] 6-3 6-3 Fangzhou LIU (CHN) / Fang Ying XUN (CHN)

Ankita will go up to around 175 in the doubles rankings with this win. She will probably be able to play Wimbledon qualifying in doubles too now.

[Saniapower]

This UK girl Harriet DART is very good player.

[sameerph]

At $25K ITF Women,Luan,China

[R1] (2) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,254) vs. Wushuang ZHENG (CHN,564)

[R1] Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,463) vs. (WC) Yanni LIU (CHN,782)

Today, in doubles Rutuja and her partner won but Karman and her partner got upset in first round.

[R2] Shilin XU (CHN) / Yue YUAN (CHN) 4-6 6-4 [10-1] Beatrice GUMULYA (INA) / Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) [2]

[R2] Rutuja BHOSALE (IND) / Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 6-2 6-4 Yile CHENG (CHN) / Sijia WEI (CHN)

[jaydeep]

Good win in the doubles for Rutuja ... Next, she and Webley-Smith r facing the top-seeds.

At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Wuhan, China

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) vs (1) Alison Bai (AUS)/ Jia-Jing Lu (CHN)