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Re: Ankita Raina thread

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Omkara wrote: Sat Apr 28, 2018 5:38 pm Who all are there in the Tops scheme?
These were there for Tennis -

Yuki Bhambri, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Sumit Nagal, Rohan Bopanna, Sania Mirza, Prarthana Thombare, Karman Kaur Thandi.

Now, Ankita Raina is added.
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Great news! For once, our sports admins (Somdev?) are willing to reconsider which is even greater news.
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Great job Ankita!!! It is never easy to make Indian sports administrators reconsider based purely on results. Looks like Prajnesh also is fighting his way into the list, following Ankita's lead!
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Ankita gets an easy R1 draw at Anning WTA125. Plays 17 yo #803 ranked Qianhui Tang (who surprisingly is ranked #151 in the doubles).
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Ankita and Guo lost in straight sets against the top-seeds.
In the singles, she is facing Chinese junior player.

At $125K Kunming Open 2018, Anning, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,193) vs (WC) Qianhui Tang (CHN,803)

Doubles
[R1] Shanshan Guo (CHN)/ Ankita Raina (IND) l (1) Dalila Jakupovic (SLO)/ Irina Khromacheva (RUS) 36 36
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At $125K Kunming Open 2018, Anning, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,193) d (WC) Qianhui Tang (CHN,803) 6-2, 6-1

Quite a dominating win for Ankita in just 58 minutes. She now awaits the winner of Yafan Wang (CHN, Seeded 2, ranked 87) vs Dannielle Lao (USA, ranked 204). The American won the first set 7-5, and up a break in the second. Looks like an upset is in the making! A bright chance for Ankita to take on a lower ranked player and proceed further deep in the draw.

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Yafan Wang fought back to win her match ... Next, Ankita is facing top-100 Chinese Yafan Wang.

At $125K Kunming Open 2018, Anning, China

[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,193) vs (2) Yafan Wang (CHN,86)
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Now Ankita is getting to play against players in the top 100 where she is going to get tested. It is going to be fun to see how she adjusts her game to win against higher level competition. It would great if someone like Prof watches her game and gives her feedback.
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If a girl ranked lower than Ankita was able to stretch Yafan Wang to the limit, maybe Ankita can go a step further and upset her.

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3rd match on Wed. Match before starts not before 12.30pm local time so around 2-2.30pm local time which is 2am EST, 7am BST, 11.30am IST.
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Very tough match for Ankita against a local top 100 player. But, she needs some good points in the next 2 weeks to make sure of making it to Wimbledon qualies. She has 48 points from Last week's $60K Luan final to defend.

The Wimbledon cut off date is 4th June but it seems only this week at Anning and next week at Luan is where Ankita will have to earn those points. it. It seems after that there is a week off for her and than French open qualies- points from which will be only added at the end of the tournament.
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Wimbledon announce that the ladies' singles qualifying draw will extend to 128 places, bringing it equal with the men.
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ornatebrute wrote: Tue May 01, 2018 4:04 pm Wimbledon announce that the ladies' singles qualifying draw will extend to 128 places, bringing it equal with the men.
Great news! Does this mean Ankita will be able to squeeze in?
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Not sure if that'll happen this year or only from 2019. A good step nevertheless.
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It will only happen in 2019. For 2018, the women's singles qualifying draw will still have only 96 slots, for 12 women to qualify in.

Here are the details of the changes: http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/art ... _2018.html
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