[Tennis] Misc. Results for Indians abroad...

[jayakris]

^^^ Great info. I had forgotten about her. She was quite talented. Also didn't know about the Ambedker connection.

[prasen9]

Sadly, she didn't really pursue a tennis career beyond that (never making it past her 2009 ranking in 2014-16), instead going on to IIM-Ahmedabad, and joining a consulting firm thereafter.

So, she's not a sadist. Life is hard as a fledgling pro. The ITF/WTA/ATP should make housing and a meal allowance compulsory in all events. The tournaments can reduce the prize money. Maybe the top-tier ones such as challengers, etc. should have an UBI. All players get $2000 each in addition to housing+meals, say. Make the grand slams also have to host a certain number challengers, futures, etc. or pay for some number.

[sameerph]

Lots of Indians played in mens and womens ITF's in Tunisia this week but with limited success.

These are their results-

At M15, Monastir, Tunisia

[R1] Paras Dahiya (IND,1343) l. Ajeet Rai (NZL,916) 03 retd
[R1] Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND,1000) d. Evgeny Philipov (RUS,1052) 76(4) 64
[R1][color=#FF4000] (8) Niki Kalyanda Poonacha (IND,785) l. BlakeEllis (AUS,785) 36 36
[R1] Ajay Pruthhvi Nemakal (IND,NR)[/color] l. (2) Ryoto Tanuma (JPN,645) 16 16

[R2] Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND,1000) d.(4)Guy Urli Irdukunda (BRI,715) 64 64

[QF] Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND,1000) l. Li Tu (AUS,945) 36 36

So, decent run by Abhinav.

At W15 Monastir, Tunisia

[R1] (Q) Sahaja Yamlapalli (IND,NR) d. Shelby Prince (USA,NR) 62 60
[R1] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,611) d. Jennifer Luilham (IND,1001) 76(6) 60
[R1] Srvya Shivani Chilaklapudi (IND,1057) d. Lola Marandel (FRA,NR) 63 62

[R2] (Q) Sahaja Yamlapalli (IND,NR) l. (1) Olga Helml (DEN,509) 57 46
[R2] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,611) l. Mariana Drazic (CRO,805) 46 46
[R2] Srvya Shivani Chilaklapudi (IND,1057) d. Yuko Hosoki (JPN,1121) 62 64

[QF] Srvya Shivani Chilaklapudi (IND,1057) l. ELENA Milovanovic (SRB,993) 26 36


Decent performances by Sriya and Sahaja but bad loss for Zeel.

[suresh]

At W15 Monastir (13 Sep 2021 - 19 Sep 2021), Sharmada BALU and Sravya Shivani CHILAKALAPUDI win the doubles title. They beat the top three seeds on the way. Great show. This is Sravya's maiden ITF doubles title.

[R1] d (2) Zeel DESAI (IND) / Mariana DRAZIC (CRO) 6-4 6-2
[QF] d (WC) Alejandra GUTIERREZ (COL) / Shelby PRINCE (USA) 6-2 1-6 (12-10)
[SF] d (3) Yuka HOSOKI (JPN) / YeXin MA (CHN) 6-1 6-0
[F] d (1) Dalayna HEWITT (USA) / Elena MILOVANOVIC (SRB)

[suresh]

Rishabh Agarwal wins his maiden ITF doubles title in the M15 Cairo Egypt tournament partnering D. Baretto Sanchez.

[suresh]

(via ITD)

JENNIFER LUIKHAM STUNS NO. 1 SEED IN MONASTIR!

Jenny defeated No. 1 seed and fmr World No. 151 İpek Soylu in R1 of 15K Monastir event with scoreline of 64 62 to capture one of the biggest wins of her burgeoning career!

Fifth seed Zeel moved into the second round with a 6-1 6-0 scoreline while Sravya lost.

[suresh]

JENNIFER LUIKHAM INTO THE QUARTERS IN MONASTIR!

Building on her big upset of the No.1 seed in R1, Jenny moved into the quarters with a solid win over Honoka Kobayashi with a score of 46 61 64.
Jenny is also in the doubles semis of this ITF $15K tourney

Zeel lost in R2.

[suresh]

(via ITD) Two good results from a couple of youngsters. Looks like it is not all doom and gloom.

ITF DOHA FUTURES : Young Dev Javia upsets 8th seed

Former India Jr. #1 and ITF Jr. #54 @devvjavia scored a R1 upset win in Qatar

[R1] Dev Javia(IND,2061) d. Terence Atmane(FRA,961) 1-6 7-5 6-2


ITF Tunisia Futures

Lohith Bathrinath upsets 5th seed

[R1] (Q) Lohith Bathrinath (IND,UNR) d. (5) Lukas Neumayer(AUT,740) 7-5 1-6 7-5


ITF Egypt Futures

Nitin Kumar Sinha upsets 7th seed

[R1] (Q) Nitin Kumar Sinha(IND,1220) d. (7) Cezar Cretu(FRA,793) 4-6 6-1 6-2

[suresh]

A nice comeback win against the fourth seed for Prajwal Dev. The other three guys that I mentioned yesterday lost.

(4) HadyHabib (LBN, 751) l S D Prajwal Dev (IND, 1074) 6-3 1-6 3-6

[QF] vs Petr Hajek (CZE, 1003)

In R2, Petr defeated Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-3 6-7(4) 6-4.

[suresh]

In keeping with the trend of losing after an upset, Prajwal Dev loses to Hajek. Why can't our players string together wins?

[sameerph]

Jennifer Luikham has made it to the SF of 15K in Tunisia.

At W15 Tunisia 42A, Monastir

[R1] Jennifer Luikham (IND,923) d. Naoko Ito (JPN,1299) 63 64

[R2] Jennifer Luikham (IND,923) d. (Q) Astrid Cirotte (FRA,1455) 64 36 64

[QF] Jennifer Luikham (IND,923) d. (6) Elena Milovanovic (SRB,844) 67(8) 63 64

Next,

[SF] Jennifer Luikham (IND,923) vs. Mara Guth (GER,1172)

[sameerph]

Fighting win by Jennifer over Mara who was a junior quarter finalist at both French open and Wimbledon juniors this year.

At W15 Tunisia 42A, Monastir

[SF] Jennifer Luikham (IND,923) d. Mara Guth (GER,1172) 16 64 75

Jennifer saved 2 match points when Mara served at 5-4, 40-15 to break there and then saved a few breakpoints in next service game at 5-5 and then broken at 6-5.

Into her second ITF final.

Very tough match next up,

[F] Jennifer Luikham (IND,923) vs. Luksika Kumkhum (THA,1259)

Luksika is a former top 100 player who is just returning to circuit after a long lay off.

[sameerph]

Pretty one sided loss in the final but still a good run by Jennifer.

At W15 Tunisia 42A, Monastir

[F] Jennifer Luikham (IND,923) l. Luksika Kumkhum (THA,1259) 26 26

[PKBasu]

Luksika Kumkhum must be coming back from injury to have such a deceptively bad ranking. She was ranked #66 in the world in November 2018, and won last week's tournament without dropping a set (naturally). No disgrace for Jennifer Luikham to have lost to her in the final. This was an excellent run to the final by her.

[Dinesh]

5 Indians in the main draw of the M15 Qatar ITF event.

R1
[Q] Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta (ITF-2093) vs [1] Dragos Nicolae Madaras (SWE,393)
[Q] Adil Kalyanpur (1544) vs Dev Javia (1137)
[Q] Rishi Reddy (1391) vs [LL] Preston Brown (USA,1545)
Rishab Agarwal (1003) vs [5] Oscar Moraing (GER,737)