Rishika Sunkara Thread

[bujilover]

Rishika Sunkara,currently ranked 634 in singles and 709 in doubles has won her first $10K ITF Singles title in Delhi this year(May).

Here are the results from the week :

R32 SUNKARA, Rishika (IND) d. DANGWAL, Vaniya (IND,NR) 6-2 7-5
R16 SUNKARA, Rishika (IND) d. UDDUR MANJUNATH, Shalaka (IND,NR) 6-1 6-2
QF SUNKARA, Rishika (IND) d. RANA, Shweta (IND,1229) 6-1 6-2
SF SUNKARA, Rishika (IND) d. WU, Ho Ching (HKG,NR) 6-1 6-4
FR SUNKARA, Rishika (IND) d. SETHI, Simran Kaur (IND,NR) 6-2 6-4

[bujilover]

And this week,in the recently concluded Bidar $10K ITF tournament,Rishika has bagged her first doubles title along with her Ukrainian partner Oleksandra Korashvili.

Here are the results:

R1 Oleksandra KORASHVILI (UKR) / Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 6-1 7-5 Sahan SHETTY (IND) / Agathe TIMSIT (FRA)
QF Oleksandra KORASHVILI (UKR) / Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 6-4 6-2 Napatsakorn SANKAEW (THA) / Varunya WONGTEANCHAI (THA) [1]
SF Oleksandra KORASHVILI (UKR) / Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 1-6 6-3 [10-5] Risa HASEGAWA (JPN) / Misa KINOSHITA (JPN)
F Oleksandra KORASHVILI (UKR) / Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 6-4 7-5 Nungnadda WANNASUK (THA) / Nan-Nan ZHANG (CHN) [3]

[Omkara]

Today she lost a good chance to go back into the top 500.. she was up a set and then up a break in second set before she gave away the match. She will turn 21 soon. Her height is of advantage but she just gave away the match in the 3rd set. Hope she plays more outside the country...

[bujilover]

Rishika is in Germany playing the qualies of $50,000 Versmold ITF on Clay.

Q draw:

R1 : Katharina GERLACH (GER,1024) vs [8] Rishika SUNKARA (523) - 16 year old opponent.Must win!!

R2 will also be played later in the day.

[sameerph]

She lost in Q1.

At $50K ITF Women Versmold, Germany

[Q1] [8] Rishika SUNKARA (IND,523) l. Katharina GERLACH (GER,1024) 36 46

[VReddy]

Will be doing Rishika's interview after being back from the good old Berlin - next Saturday afternoon IST. Let me know if you all have any questions that we can put to her.

[VReddy]

Interview with Rishika: https://indiantennisdaily.com/2018/02/1 ... a-sunkara/

Focus on her great run at the Australian open (matches against Daria Gavrilova and others), unique feat of being both Jr and Pro No.1 in India, participation in multiple team events, her views around Junior vs Pro tour balance, College route vs turning Pro, Training vs Tournament schedule balance, role of the Tennis Federation and so on