Prarthana Thombare thread

[sameerph]

Prarthna is thru to yet another doubles final in Latvia.

At W60 Liepaja, Latvia (Clay)

[R1] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) d. Anneta Laboutkova (CZE) / Marine Partaud (FRA) 64 75

[QF] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) d. Lu Jing-Jing (CHN) / Yuan Yue (CHN) 46 63 10-6

[SF] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) d. Nafisa Berberovic (BIH) / Martina Colegmana (ITA) 63 64

Next,

[F] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) vs. Dalia Jacupovic (SRB) / Ivana Jorovic (SRB)

[Atithee]

That’s pretty awesome! No seeded teams at all. Good luck.

[jayakris]

Pretty good to see that Prarthana is continuing to do her thing in doubles. I thought she was fading away sometime ago. Not so.

[sameerph]

That’s pretty awesome! No seeded teams at all. Good luck.

Prarthana and her partner in the SF beat the team that beat the second seeded team earlier. Now in the final, they are playing a team which beat the top seeded team. Final is going to be pretty tough as Jucupovic is a former top 40 doubles player.

Pretty good to see that Prarthana is continuing to do her thing in doubles. I thought she was fading away sometime ago. Not so.

Yes, she had virtually faded away after covid break, got outside top 400 last year. Now, after this run she will get back inside top 200 in doubles rankings.

[sameerph]

They did lose in the final.

At W60 Liepaja, Latvia (Clay)

[F] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) l. Dalia Jacupovic (SRB) / Ivana Jorovic (SRB) 46 36

Still a good run by Prarthana which will take her back inside top 200.

[sameerph]

Prarthana with her partner had a nice win in WTA 125 tournament in Italy.

At Open delle Puglie WTA 125, Bari, Italy (Clay)

[R1] Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Ingrid Gamara Martina (BRA) d. Ylena In-Albon (SUI)/ Reka Luka Jani (HUN) 62 26 10-8

Next,

[QF] Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Ingrid Gamara Martina (BRA) vs. (1) Andrea Gamiz (VEN) / Eva Vedder (NED)

[sameerph]

They lost in QF.

At Open delle Puglie WTA 125, Bari, Italy (Clay)

[QF] Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Ingrid Gamara Martina (BRA) l. (1) Andrea Gamiz (VEN) / Eva Vedder (NED) 57 57

[Dinesh]

Prarthana is in Europe playing at a W60 ITF this week in Germany. Next week, she will play at the W40 Macon ITF in France with 21yo Darya Astakhova (#139).

At W60 ALTENKIRCHEN, Germany (IH)

R1 (4) Jessy Rompies (INA)/ Prarthana Thombare 6-2 3-6 10-6 Mara Guth/ Angelina Wirges (GER/GER)
QF (4) Jessy Rompies (INA)/ Prarthana Thombare 6-3 6-4 Noma Noha Akugue/ Ella Seidel (GER/GER)
SF (4) Jessy Rompies (INA)/ Prarthana Thombare vs (1) Greet Minnen/ Yanina Wickmayer (BEL/BEL)

Tough match against former top-100 WTA players.

[Dinesh]

As suspected, Prarthana and her partner lost to the Belgian team 0 & 2 last week.

This week, at the W40 Macon (France) ITF, Prarthana is playing with Russian Astakhova and the pair has reached the semifinals.

At W40 Macon, France (IH)

R1 (2) Darya Astakhova (RUS)/ Prarthana Thombare BYE
QF (2) Darya Astakhova (RUS)/ Prarthana Thombare 7-5 6-4 Jenny Duerst (SUI) / Yuki Naito (JPN)
SF (2) Darya Astakhova (RUS)/ Prarthana Thombare versus (3) Emily Appleton (GBR)/ Jessy Rompies (INA)

[jayakris]

Have to give credit to Prarthana for her perseverance in making a good doubles career, traveling all alone as an Indian to all these events. I thought she would lose steam after the Covid break and not continue much longer. Doesn't seem so. She is still playing some pretty good doubles.

[Dinesh]

At W40 Macon, France (IH)

R1 (2) Darya Astakhova (RUS)/ Prarthana Thombare BYE
QF (2) Darya Astakhova (RUS)/ Prarthana Thombare 7-5 6-4 Jenny Duerst (SUI) / Yuki Naito (JPN)
SF (2) Darya Astakhova (RUS)/ Prarthana Thombare 6-3 3-6 12-10 (3) Emily Appleton (GBR)/ Jessy Rompies (INA)
F (2) Darya Astakhova (RUS)/ Prarthana Thombare 3-6 4-6 (4) Magali Kempen (BEL)/ Xenia Knoll (SUI)

#175 in the live rankings. Not sure if she is staying in Europe or coming home for the Bengaluru ITFs.

[Dinesh]

Prarthana has entered the Colombia WTA 250 with Jessy Rompies and the pair has made it to the main draw. The tournament starts next week.

[sameerph]

Prarthana and Jessy Rompies lost 57 26 against pair of Kalashnikova of Georgina and Piter from Poland in WTA 250 in Colombia first round.

[Atithee]

Was the Georgian using AK-47 style racket?

[prasen9]

Psst, Piter from Poland pestered her into petering out her pre-conceived ideas of possessing an AK-47 in public