Nov/Dec Women's $25K ITF tournaments - India

[bujilover]

There will be five women's $25,000 ITF tournaments during the WTA off-season in India, as usual. 2 of them are scheduled for the month of November with the first one being on grass courts at Muzzafarnagar, Ahmedabad.

Nov 12-18, $25K ITF, Muzzafarnagar

1 Gabriella TAYLOR (GBR) 172 1
2 Valentina IVAKHNENKO (RUS) 205 1
3 Hiroko KUWATA (JPN) 272 1
4 Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND) 280 1
5 Eri HOZUMI (JPN) 290 1
6 Nastja KOLAR (SLO) 359 1
7 Natalija KOSTIC (SRB) 367 1
8 Rutuja BHOSALE (IND) 368 1
9 Tereza MIHALIKOVA (SVK) 390 1
10 Kyoka OKAMURA (JPN) 423 1
11 Aleksandrina NAYDENOVA (BUL) 443 1
12 Lina GJORCHESKA (MKD) 485 1
13 Shiho AKITA (JPN) 488 2
14 Ksenia PALKINA (KGZ) 504 1
15 Sarah-Rebecca SEKULIC (GER) 508 1
16 Michika OZEKI (JPN) 530 1
17 Zeel DESAI (IND) 562 1
18 Melanie KLAFFNER (AUT) 573 1

Great chance for Pranjala and Rutuja to get some wins. Mahak is in the Q list and probably will get a MDWC. Whatever happened to Nandini Sharma?

[bujilover]

Ankita and Karman will be playing the WTA125K at Taipei the same week. It's unfortunate that Ankita has to miss playing on her favorite surface at her home courts but hopefully our players will get some wins at Taipei.

[sameerph]

There will be five women's $25,000 ITF tournaments during the WTA off-season in India, as usual. 2 of them are scheduled for the month of November with the first one being on grass courts at Muzzafarnagar, Ahmedabad.

Muzzafarnagar is in Uttar Pradesh not Ahmedabad.

Important for Pranjala to do well in these if she has to get into Australian open qualies draw.

[VReddy]

Whatever happened to Nandini Sharma?

Univ of Central Florida. NCAA tennis.

[bujilover]

Thanks, Vishnu. She has not played yet even though she is featured in the rosters but it’s probably because she is only 2-months into the Fall semester. It will be interesting to follow her college career.

[Daniel]

And now Pranjala has withdrawn. I hope it's because she, too, is going to Taipei.

At the moment, it looks like nobody really wants to take advantage of the really weak field in Muzaffarnagar.

Rutuja is on track to be seeded 4th.

[bujilover]

And now Pranjala has withdrawn. I hope it's because she, too, is going to Taipei.

It probably doesn’t make a lot of sense to play on grass during the off season. But Pranjala is not on the initial entry lists released for Taipei either. Maybe she wanted a week of rest.

[bujilover]

Someone on TF confirmed that Pranjala was in the ALTs list for Taipei but withdrew. Not sure what the reason is.

[sameerph]

It was a great chance for Pranjala to earn a lot of points with her being the second seed at Muzaffarnagar. A final or title here would have taken her close to getting to Australian open qualies. Now, it will be difficult in 2 remaining 25K's in end November. I guess there might be some niggle. Hope there is no serious injury.

[Daniel]

And now Rutuja has withdrawn

So none of our top 4 will show up.

Hard to believe that they're all injured at the same time.
Perhaps they just didn't feel like travelling all the way to Muzaffarnagar to play on grass? Even if so, it's ridiculous to pass up the chance to earn 50 points.

[jayakris]

Yeah, it is pretty sad to see them all missing it.

[PKBasu]

Our men and women are wasting precious opportunities to rack up the points in home tournaments. Terrible

[sameerph]

So, finally Zeel, Riya,Mahak,Sai Samitha and Sowjanya have got directly into main draw for Muzzafarnagar 25K . Main draw wild cards for have gone to Ramya Natarajan,Prerna Bhambri, Snehal Mane and Humera Begum Shaik.

These are first round qualifying results -

Alexandra RILEY (USA) [1] BYE
Sai Dedeepya YEDDULA (IND) BYE
Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB) [2] BYE
Avika SAGWAL (IND) 6-0 6-2 LEERA RAJU (IND)
Anna MAKHORKINA (RUS) [3] BYE
Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 7-5 6-4 Aayushi TANWAR (IND)
Dan Ni WANG (CHN) [4] BYE
Deeksha MANJU PRASAD (IND) 6-1 Retired Preethi UJJINI (IND)
Ashmitha EASWARAMURTHI (IND) [5] BYE
Soha SADIQ (IND) 6-2 6-1 Shefali ARORA (IND)
Natasha PALHA (IND) [6] BYE
Arthi MUNIYAN (IND) 6-3 6-0 Maanya VISWANATH (IND)
Jennifer LUIKHAM (IND) [7] BYE
Shrivalli Rashmikaa BHAMIDIPATY (IND) 7-5 6-2 Sravya Shivani CHILAKALAPUDI (IND)
Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) [8] BYE
Prathyusha RACHAPUDI (IND) 6-1 6-2 Saumya VIG (IND)

So, 4 Indians are guaranteed to got to main draw thru qualifying making it 13 Indians in the main draw. But, none of them will be seeded.

[bujilover]

Rutuja is recovering from a minor injury as per her Instagram update.

[Omkara]

This tournament has a history which I didn't know. We must market such stories.