Ankita Raina thread

[jaydeep]

Ankita started with a comfortable win over her Spanish opponent ... Next, she is facing local wild-card player, Kerfs.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Koksijde, Belgium

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,269) bt (Q) Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers (ESP,410) 64 60

[R2] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,269) vs (WC) Deborah Kerfs (BEL,530)

[bujilover]

Excellent win for Ankita . Her opponent was in the final of a $25K ITF in Germany just last month. Let's hope Ankita dominates her local opponent in R2

[sameerph]

Ankita is thru to the QF with a 3 set win.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Koksijde, Belgium

[R2] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,269) d. (WC) Deborah Kerfs (BEL,530) 63 36 61

Next,

[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,269) vs. (8) Ganna POZNIKHIRENKO (UKR,323)

[sameerph]

Ankita lost in a 3 setter in her singles QF but won the doubles title.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Koksijde, Belgium

[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,269) l. (8) Ganna POZNIKHIRENKO (UKR,323) 46 75 26

These are her doubles results this week-

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND) / Bibiane SCHOOFS (NED) [2] 6-4 6-3 Luna MEERS (BEL) / Chelsea VANHOUTTE (BEL)
[QF] Ankita RAINA (IND) / Bibiane SCHOOFS (NED) [2] 7-5 2-1 Retired Vinciane REMY (FRA) / Marie TEMIN (FRA)
[SF] Ankita RAINA (IND) / Bibiane SCHOOFS (NED) [2] 4-6 6-3 [10-7] Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB) / Anastasiya VASYLYEVA (UKR)

[F] Ankita RAINA (IND) / Bibiane SCHOOFS (NED) [2] 3-6 6-3 [11-9] Marie BENOIT (BEL) / Magali KEMPEN (BEL)


This is her third 25K challenger title in doubles this year. With that she will move close to 170 in WTA doubles rankings.

[sameerph]

Ankita is playing in Germany this week.

At $25K ITF Women, Leipzig, Germany

[R1] (7) Ankita RAINA (IND,271) vs. Bibiane SCHOOFS (NED,288)

Schoofs is the girl in form and reached the singles final last week and was Ankita's partner in winning the doubles title too.

[bujilover]

And our girl beat the in-form girl in 3&2

[vishalg]

Actually her opponent retired at 3-2, 15-30 in second set. She had a nasty fall at 2-1 deuce and seemed to be crying with pain. Came back after MTO but couldn't complete the match.

[bujilover]

Actually her opponent retired at 3-2, 15-30 in second set. She had a nasty fall at 2-1 deuce and seemed to be crying with pain. Came back after MTO but couldn't complete the match.

Yikes! The ITF live scores app showed it a complete winner. Just noticed the correct result in their website.

[bujilover]

At $25K ITF Women, Leipzig, Germany

[R1] (7) Ankita RAINA (IND,271) 6-3 2-3 retd Bibiane SCHOOFS (NED,288)

Up next:

[R2] (7) Ankita RAINA (IND,271) vs Alice MATTEUCCI (ITA,396) - Should not be a trouble beating the Italian whose career high is 319.

Both Ankita and Riya are scheduled to play their respective R1 doubles matches later today.

[jaydeep]

Ankita entered into the quarters with straight sets win over Italian girl ... Next, she is facing top-250 Russian girl, Valentyna Ivakhnenko.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Leipzig, Germany

[R2] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,271) bt Alice Matteucci (ITA,396) 63 64

[QF] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,271) vs (3) Valentyna Ivakhnenko (RUS,240)

[bujilover]

Ankita's match is live now in the Russian streaming website. She lost the first set 2-6.

[suresh]

Ankita wins the second set 6-4 with a break in the tenth game.

[bujilover]

She was 0-3 in the decider and I stopped watching. Are there any ITF rules with respect to having ballkids for a tournament? I can't believe this $25K ITF doesn't have either ballkids or even linesmen to help the players.

I am not sure if Ankita lost her match, but it's great to see her traveling to these strange cities and trying to make it big still. She should win the doubles final now.

[sameerph]

Ankita lost the QF.

[QF] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,271) l. (3) Valentyna Ivakhnenko (RUS,240) 26 64 36

I watched the third set. Ankita tried to mount a comeback from 0-4 down but it was too little too late.

Ankita's game is not ideal for clay courts as she hits flat on both wings. The groundstrokes are quite good but most of the shots which would have been winners on hard courts were returned by her opponent.

I don't know what she chose to play these set of tournaments on European clay instead of being in Asia for the hard courts ones.

After reaching a $60K final in China in April , she has not played a single tournament on hard courts. Thankfully, next week it is back on hard courts at a $60K in Turkey.

[vishalg]

Recording of her QF match is available on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you ... b9TonckIaQ