ITF Women's satellites ($5K Leg1- Indore)

Post by **jayakris** » Mon May 05, 2003 1:31 pm

Here are the draws:

1 Sonal Phadke (IND)          d.   Lata Assudani (IND)         60 61
Q Anupama Rajur (IND)         d. Q Sagarika Phadke (IND)       63 75
L Parul Goswami (IND)         d. L Nitisha Deodhar (IND)       61 62
5 Liza Pereira (IND)          d. W Harpreet Gill (IND)         61 60
  Archana Venkatraman (IND)   d. Q Pallavi Sharma (IND)        60 61
  Kamini Murugaboopathy (IND) d. Q Asha Nandakumar (IND)       63 64
  Yamini Thukkaiandi (IND)    d.   Jung-Yoon Shin (KOR)        62 36 64
6 Isha Lakhani (IND)          d.   Priyanka Parekh (IND)       75 63
7 Shruti Dhawan (IND)         d. Q Rani Smita Jain (IND)       36 75 60
W Ragini Vimal (IND)          d.   Deepa Chakrabarthy (IND)    63 61
  Iciri Rai (IND)             d.   Aya Oasa (JPN)              62 63
4 Ankita Bhambri (IND)        d. Q Varsha Shivshankar (IND)    61 61
8 Preeti Rao (IND)            d.   Vishika Chhetri (IND)       61 62
W Madhura Ranganathan (IND)   d. Q Sandhya Nagraj (IND)        64 46 63
Q Chirashanti Rajur (IND)     d. L Naina Karsolia (IND)        60 60
2 Sheethal Goutham (IND)      d.   Rati Kumar (IND)            62 75

Doubles Round 1: [No wildcards/qualifying]

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1 S.Dhawan/ S.Goutham             BYE
  P.Parekh/ R.Vimal          d.   R-S.Jain/ P.Sharma         60 63
4 I.Rai/ P.Rao               d.   K.Murugaboopathy/ J-Y.Shin 64 61
  L.Assudani/ R.Kumar        d.   N.Perumal/ Y.Thukkaiandi   Walkover
  A.Rajur/ C.Rajur           d.   Sa.Phadke/ V.Shivshankar   61 62
3 A.Bhambri/ S.Phadke        d.   S.Nagraj/ M.Ranganathan    62 63
  D.Chakrabarthy/ I.Lakhani  d.   N.Deodhar/ H.Gill          61 60
2 L.Pereira/ A.Venkatraman   d.   A.Nandkumar/ A.Oasa        76(4) 62

Qualifying results (Only one round and 5 players made the main draw straight)

Rani Smita Jain (IND) d. Naina Karsolia (IND) 63 63
Varsha Shiv-shankar (IND) d. Nitisha Deodhar (IND) 61 61
Asha Nandakumar (IND) d. Parul Goswami (IND) 57 64 63

All top Indian players are there, except for NV, Sania, Sai, Rushmi and Radhika. Ankita and Isha add more quality to the competition compared to what is usual in this circuit. Pity that only the last leg gives any points.

Jay

Post by **jayakris** » Wed May 07, 2003 4:15 am

Updated the draw above with all the scores so far.

Jay

nkoth · Post by **nkoth** » Wed May 07, 2003 4:18 am

Hmm, nice to see that everyone from here on out in the tourney is Indian!

-neil

Post by **jayakris** » Wed May 07, 2003 9:29 pm

Wednesday second round:

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1 Sonal Phadke (IND)      d. Q Anupama Rajur (IND)        61 60
5 Liza Pereira (IND)      d. L Parul Goswami (IND)        76(4) 75
  Archana Venkatraman(IND)d.   Kamini Murugaboopathy(IND) 63 75
6 Isha Lakhani (IND)      d.   Yamini Thukkaiandi (IND)   61 60
7 Shruti Dhawan (IND)     d. W Ragini Vimal (IND)         61 46 60
4 Ankita Bhambri (IND)    d.   Iciri Rai (IND)            63 62
8 Preeti Rao (IND)        d. W Madhura Ranganathan (IND)  61 62
2 Sheethal Goutham (IND)  d. Q Chirashanti Rajur (IND)    64 62

Why does Shruti keep playing these three-setters?

Jay

Post by **Dhruv** » Thu May 08, 2003 10:08 pm

The QuarterFinals

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5 Liza Pereira (IND)      d. 1 Sonal Phadke (IND)        36 64 76(2)
6 Isha Lakhani (IND)      d.   Archana Venkatraman(IND)  61 63
7 Shruti Dhawan (IND)     d. 4 Ankita Bhambri (IND)      36 76(5) 61
2 Sheethal Goutham (IND)  d. 8 Preeti Rao (IND)          75 76

Another 3- setter for Shruti, and another win. I guess if it works

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Post by **jayakris** » Fri May 09, 2003 11:17 pm

It's burning hot and these girls can't stop playing three-setters. Tough matches! .. Here are the semi scores,

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6 Isha Lakhani(IND)  d. 5 Liza Pereira(IND)     57 63 60
7 Shruti Dhawan(IND) d. 2 Sheethal Goutham(IND) 67(8) 61 64

Jay

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Sat May 10, 2003 11:45 am

It's astonishing that there were just two foreigners in the entire draw of the first leg of this Satellite. So it is effectively what would have been considered a typical domestic tournament in the 1970s.
But it's very nice to see Isha Lakhani coming through to make the final. We have a terrific group of teenagers with fabulous potential, especially on the girls' side.

Post by **jayakris** » Sat May 10, 2003 3:48 pm

Isha Lakhani won the thing today!

Finals:

(6) Isha Lakhani (IND) d. (7) Shruti Dhawan (IND), 63 64
(1) S.Dhawan/ S.Goutham d. (2) L.Pereira/ A.Venkatraman, 26 76(4) 60

Jay