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This is a nice story on Prarthana's rise from a girl in small town in Maharashtra to represent India at Rio -

Prarthana packs her bags to partner Sania in Rio
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She is playing another tournament ($25K) in France this week, with a Turkish partner. They are seeded second.

Prarthana is still shown as ranked 210. She won a tournament in Sharm el-Sheikh last year in the same week (actually 2 titles and one runner-up finish in 3 successive weeks in June last year), so perhaps her points didn't move up enough to push her into the top-200 despite last week's title.
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No. That is because 25K points are updated a week layer I'm WTA rankings. She will be in top 200 next Monday.
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As expected, Prarthna is now ranked inside top 200 at 190 in this week's WTA doubles rankings.

Last week she got knocked in the QF of a $25K challenger in France. I guess she may be playing another 25K challenger in France this week. (draws are not out yet.)
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PGT is in Europe playing a string of Challenger tourneys. She lost in R1 STB last week at the $100K Biarritz CH, France. This week she is the top seed at the $50K+H Saint-Malo CH (FRA). I like the way she selects her tournaments that awards a lot of ranking points and prize money for winners.

At the $50K+H Saint-Malo CH,FRA (CLAY)

[R1] [1] Prarthana G THOMBARE / Maryna ZANEVSKA (IND/UKR) BYE

Maryna is a good player at this level. Hoping for a promising showing from this team. :goodluck:
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She played the singles qualifiers but got thrashed in the first round by Swiss Lisa Sabino 6-1 6-0.
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suresh wrote:She played the singles qualifiers but got thrashed in the first round by Swiss Lisa Sabino 6-1 6-0.
Um which is why I did not post that :p
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Prarthana lost in semi final this week.

At $50,000+H ITF Women Saint-Malo

[R1] Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) / Maryna ZANEVSKA (UKR) [1] BYE

[QF] Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) / Maryna ZANEVSKA (UKR) [1] 6-2 6-0 Audrey ALBIE (FRA) / Harmony TAN (FRA)

[SF] Lina GJORCHESKA (MKD) / Diana MARCINKEVICA (LAT) 7-6(4) 7-6(5) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) / Maryna ZANEVSKA (UKR) [1]
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Disappointed.
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bujilover wrote:Disappointed.
True but someone is taking up doubles seriusly among women. Its good. Hope for better results
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In the doubles Prarthana is playing with Japanese partner Nao Hibino and they r facing wild-card Uzbek-Ukrainian pair.

At $250K WTA Tashkent Open, Uzbekistan

[R1] Nao HIBINO (JPN)/ Prarthana THOMBARE (IND) vs (WC) Polina MERENKOVA (UZB)/ Dayana YASTREMSKA (UKR)
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$480 if she loses, $960 / 60 pts if she wins. Win
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Oh they are winning this for sure.Clever choice for PGT to play here and a lucky draw I must say. :goodluck:
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Omkara wrote:$480 if she loses, $960 / 60 pts if she wins. Win
The money at lower level WTA tour events in doubles appears really paltry. Ankita earned $1285 for winning one round of singles qualies which is more than what Prarthana will get if she wins a main draw round here.

At a similar level ATP event at Chengdu, Jeevan has got a similar chance to play a main tour event. A first round loss for Jeevan there will earn him $2170 which is almost 4 times the amount Prarthana gets if she loses in first round.
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Re: Prarthana Thombare thread

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It is hard to pay money for these matches when there is zero interest from the paying public and sponsors.
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