ITF Women $100K Suzhou, China, October 15-21

[sameerph]

Ankita and Karman are playing here in singles and Prarthna is there in doubles.

Only doubles matches were played today.

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND) / Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) l. (1) Natela DZALAMIDZE (RUS) / Veronika KUDERMETOVA (RUS) 06 46
[R1] Jia-Jing LU (CHN) / Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) l. Jiaxi LU (CHN) / Mei Xu WU (CHN) 36 64 8-10
[R1] (4) Jacqueline CAKO (USA) / Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) d. Yi YUAN (CHN) / WanNing ZHU (CHN) 61 60

Tomorrow in singles -

[R1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,215) vs. (6) Lin ZHU (CJN,116)

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,201) vs. (Q) Jana CEPELOVA (SLO,243)

Tough matches for both. Karman plays a local player ranked close to top 100 and Ankita plays a former top 50 player.

[Sin Hombre]

KKT got double bageled, wow

[sameerph]

That is indeed a surprisingly one sided loss. Karman must not have been double bagled in her career. She is coming back after a month's break. I hope no major injury scare.

[sameerph]

Ankita too lost in a one sided match.

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,201) l, Jana Cepelova (SVK,243) 16 26

Only Prarthana left in doubles.

[jayakris]

Argh.

[Varma]

It clearly looks like a case of opponent being under-ranked. Otherwise, I don't see Ankita losing with that scoreline to an opponent closer to her in ranking.

- Varma

[bujilover]

Cepelova was a former top-50 WTA player, I’m not surprised by Ankita loss at all but I’m worried why Karman played badly.

[sameerph]

Prarthna too lost in the doubles QF to complete a miserable tournament for us.

[QF] Hanyu GUO (CHN) / Fang Ying XUN (CHN) 6-4 6-7(4) [10-8] Jacqueline CAKO (USA) / Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) [4]

It seems only Karman is staying back to play $25K in Nanning next week.