Riya Bhatia thread

[Dinesh]

Riya (#384) is in the main draw of the W25 Lisbon ITF being played this week. This tournament is played on clay and she has a tough first round encounter against Norwegian Malene Helgo (#353)

[sameerph]

She lost in first round.

At W25 Lisbon, Portugal (Clay)

[R1] Riya Bhatia (IND,384) l. Melane Helgo (NOR,353) 26 26

[Dinesh]

Riya comes up with an important first round win at the 60K+H Chile Challenger (on clay) to gain some lost momentum in her singles game. Before this result, she lost 5 matches in straight sets.

60K+H Santiago ITF

R1 Riya BHATIA (438) 6-3 4-6 6-2 Jasmin JEBAWY (GER,625)

[sameerph]

Yes, good win for Riya. Also kudos to her for travelling to South America for these tournaments where not too many Indians venture to.

At $60K(+H) ITF Women, Santiago, Chile

[R2] Riya Bhatia (IND,438) vs. Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR,249)

[sameerph]

She lost tamely.

At $60K(+H) ITF Women, Santiago, Chile

[R2] Riya Bhatia (IND,438) l. Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR,249) 26 26

[vparam]

Riya gets crushed again.

At $125k Hana Bank Open, Seoul, Korea

[R1] Riya Bhatia (IND,433) l. Anastasia Kulokova (FIN,274) 06 26

[sameerph]

Riya has been playing in 25K's in South/Central America for last 3 weeks, in Mexico in last 2 weeks and Dominican Republic this week. Lost in first round in all 3 weeks. Will continue there at least in next 2 weeks it seems. Gutsy of her to go all the way there to play although she is not getting the desired results.

[Dinesh]

Riya is in the US skipping the 2nd leg of the Gurugram W25 ITF and has entered qualifying at the W100 Charleston ITF. She came up with a good win today against the #4 ranked college tennis player, Sarah Hamner. Prarthana is also playing in the doubles main draw (mods, feel free to start a thread for this tournament as per rules).

W100 Charleston ITF (green clay)

QR1 [4] Riya Bhatia (537) 6-2 6-1 Zora Hudson (USA, 928-ITF)
QR2 [4] Riya Bhatia (537) 5-7 6-1 10-7 Sarah Hamner (USA,966-ITF)

Riya gets 6 ranking points for qualifying. Hope she draws a favorable opponent in the opening round of the main draw and gains more points and $$.

[sameerph]

Riya lost 26 26 against American Victoria Duval who is currently ranked 362 but has been in top 100 earlier.

Still a good week for Riya who has been trying to go and play lot of tournaments abroad with mixed success. Hope this pays off eventually for her.

[sameerph]

Riya Bhatia reaches QF in Brazil W25. One of the weakest field at W25 level as Riya had to beat 2 players ranked close to 1000 in first 2 rounds but good that Riya won easily losing only 1 game in each of those matches.

At W25 Rio De Janerio, Brazil (Clay)

[R1] (4) Riya Bhatia (IND,537) d. Heydi Doldan (PAR,996) 61 60

[R2] (4) Riya Bhatia (IND,537) d. Julia Konishi Camargo Silva (BRA,1000) 60 61

Next,

[QF] (4) Riya Bhatia (IND,537) vs. (7) Romina Ccuno (PER,729)

[sameerph]

Riya is thru to SF.

At W25 Rio De Janerio, Brazil (Clay)

[QF] (4) Riya Bhatia (IND,537) d. (7) Romina Ccuno (PER,729) 36 64 61

Next,

[SF] (4) Riya Bhatia (IND,537) vs. (5) Noella Zabellos Melgar (BOL,565)

[jayakris]

At W25 Rio De Janerio, Brazil (Clay)

[SF] (4) Riya Bhatia (IND,537) l. (5) Noella Zabellos Melgar (BOL,565), 26 36

She lost in the doubles final too...

[R1] (2) Riya Bhatia (IND)/ Maria Paulina Perez-Garcia (COL) d. Nicolly Ferreira (BRA)/ Mariana Gomes Sorrilha (BRA), 63 62
[QF] (2) Riya Bhatia (IND)/ Maria Paulina Perez-Garcia (COL) d. Ana Candiotto (BRA)/ Luiza Fullana (BRA), 75 63
[SF] (2) Riya Bhatia (IND)/ Maria Paulina Perez-Garcia (COL) d. (4) Romina Ccuno (PER)/ Sabastiani Leon (USA), 63 63
[F] (2) Riya Bhatia (IND)/ Maria Paulina Perez-Garcia (COL) l. (3) Thaisa Grana Pedretti (BRA)/ Noelia Zeballos Melgar (BOL), 36 16

[gbelday]

Based on her insta post, she had a stomach infection and wasn’t 100%.