$25K Nigeria Men's & Women's ITF Sep/Oct 2018

[bujilover]

Women:
Pranjala, Riya and Jennifer Luikham are in the main draw.

Men:
Niki, Aryan in MD. Shahbaaz Khan is in QD.

This tournament provides free hospitality which means more ranking points compared to a typical $25K event.

[jaydeep]

Pranjala and Riya started with straight sets win over their respective opponents ... Next, they r facing each other.

At $25K+H ITF Women Tournament 2018, Lagos, Nigeria

[R1] Jennifer Luikham (IND,1026) l (1) Conny Perrin (SUI,144) 46 26
[R1] (6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,396) bt Patience Onebamhoin (NGR,UNR) 61 60
[R1] Riya Bhatia (IND,717) bt Kajsa Rinaldo Persson (SWE,UNR) 63 64

[R2] (6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,396) vs Riya Bhatia (IND,717)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Riya Bhatia (IND)/ Rosalie Van der Hoek (NED) vs (WC) Ronke Akingbade (NGR)/ Patience Onebamhoin (NGR)
[R1] Jennifer Luikham (IND)/ Diana Maria Mihail (ROU) vs Paulina Jastrzebska (POL)/ Tiffany William (GBR)

[jaydeep]

Aryan started with a win in the singles and the doubles.

At $25K+H Nigeria F4 Futures 2018, Lagos

[R1] (7) Aryan Goveas (IND,756) bt Sylvester Emmanuel (NGR,UNR) 60 60
[R1] (6) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,690) bt (LL) Shahbaaz Khan (IND,1913) 64 61

[R2] (7) Aryan Goveas (IND,756) vs Diego Matos (BRA,1451)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Aryan Goveas (IND)/ Tyler Lu (USA) bt Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND)/ Shahbaaz Khan (IND) 64 64

[bujilover]

Both of our men go through to QF .

Round 2

(7) Aryan Goveas (IND,756) 6-3 retd Diego Matos (BRA,1451)
(6) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,690) 7-6 4-6 6-3 Alexis KLEGOU (BEN, 914)

(6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,396) 6-4 6-4 Riya Bhatia (IND,717)

[jaydeep]

Aryan and his American partner lost in the match tie-break after winning the first set tie-break.

In the singles quarters, Aryan and Niki r having tough matches against top-500 Frenchmen.

At $25K+H Nigeria F4 Futures 2018, Lagos

[QF] (7) Aryan Goveas (IND,756) vs (1) Tom Jomby (FRA,429)
[QF] (6) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,690) vs (4) Arthur Rinderknech (FRA,464)

Doubles
[QF] (4) Aryan Goveas (IND)/ Tyler Lu (USA) l William Bushamuka (USA)/ Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) 76(4) 26 8-10

[jaydeep]

In the quarters, Pranjala is facing the top-200 type Israeli, Deniz Khazaniuk.
An expected comfortable win for Riya and her partner in the doubles ... Next, they r facing French-Israeli pair.

At $25K+H ITF Women Tournament 2018, Lagos, Nigeria

[QF] (6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,396) vs (2) Deniz Khazaniuk (ISR,206)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Riya Bhatia (IND)/ Rosalie Van der Hoek (NED) bt (WC) Ronke Akingbade (NGR)/ Patience Onebamhoin (NGR) 61 60
[R1] Jennifer Luikham (IND)/ Diana Maria Mihail (ROU) l Paulina Jastrzebska (POL)/ Tiffany William (GBR) 46 36

[QF] (3) Riya Bhatia (IND)/ Rosalie Van der Hoek (NED) vs Estelle Cascino (FRA)/ Deniz Khazaniuk (ISR)

[jaydeep]

Expected losses for Aryan and Niki against the top-500 Frenchmen ... Niki had a chance as he won the first set and lost the second set in the tie-break, but after losing that he failed to challenge Rinderknech in the third.

At $25K+H Nigeria F4 Futures 2018, Lagos

[QF] (7) Aryan Goveas (IND,756) l (1) Tom Jomby (FRA,429) 16 57
[QF] (6) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,690) l (4) Arthur Rinderknech (FRA,464) 63 67(4) 16

[sameerph]

Pranjala is 76 (3) 42 up against the second seed.

[sameerph]

Pranjala served for the match at 5-4 , saved 6 breakpoints and served out to complete an excellent win

At $25K+H ITF Women Tournament 2018, Lagos, Nigeria

[QF] (6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,396) d.(2) Deniz Khazaniuk (ISR,206) 76 (3) 64

With our top 2 missing from circuit this week,Indian #3 and #4 are taking a step up this week. Both have had wins over players ranked close to top 200 . Need to check but these are mostly the career best wins for Rutuja and Pranjala.

[jaydeep]

Yes, an impressive win ... In the semis, she is facing Argentine Bosio.

At $25K+H ITF Women Tournament 2018, Lagos, Nigeria

[SF] (6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,396) vs (4) Victoria Bosio (ARG,341)

[suresh]

Great win. Hope she goes further as the points build up only from the SF onwards.

[PKBasu]

Fabulous win for Pranjala. Great to see our young women really moving up quickly, as Pranjala and Rutuja look to catch up with Ankita and Karman -- while the latter two keep moving up too!

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[SF] (6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,396) 6-2 5-0 ret (4) Victoria Bosio (ARG,341)

Pranjala faces the top seed Conny Perrin in the Finals. Conny had to spend 2h53m on the court to defeat her SF opponent. Great week for Pranjala so far!

[sameerph]

Yes, her best week of her career as this his first 25K final.

[F] (6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,396) vs. (1) Conny Perin (SUI,144)

I don't know how a top 150 player is allowed to play a 25K tournament. I think on ATP tour, top 150 players are not allowed to play futures.

[sameerph]

Pranjala is putting up a very good fight against the top seed.

After losing the first set tamely at 2-6, she was down a break 3-4 in the second set. She broke back, had a couple of set points with Corin serving at 4-5 which she could not convert. Then, faced 3 breakpoints at 0-40 but saved them all to hold for 6-5 and just now broke Corin to take the second set 7-5.