Ankita Raina thread

[jayakris]

Couple of good wins to make the MD by Ankita. Let's go on a good run here.

[arjun2761]

Good wins by Ankita! Although not the same player now due to age and injuries, Sabine Lisicki made the 2013 Wimbledon final, so she can play on grass.

[Omkara]

At $100K ITF Women, Surbitron, Great Britain (Grass)

[Q1] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,170) d. Myrtille Georges (FRA,234) 7-6(6) 6-1
[Q2] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,170) d. Sabine Lisicki (GER, 297 ) 6-3 6-1

Lisicki, former Wimbledon finalist, is down with recurring knee injury. But still good of Ankita to beat her.

[jaydeep]

Ankita failed to repeat her qualifying performance and lost easily against Katy Dunne ...

At $100K ITF Women Tournament 2019, Surbiton, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] (Q) Ankita Raina (IND,170) l (WC) Katy Dunne (GBR,262) 36 36

[PKBasu]

Sad that she lost in the first round of the main draw. But defeating Sabine Lisicki in Q2 is a memorable scalp -- especially on grass. Lisicki is a seriously good grass court player, who beat Serena in R4 on the way to making the 2013 Wimbledon final. She used to make it a habit of beating the reigning French Open champion at Wimbledon (including Serena in 2013). In 2011 she made the SF at Wimbledon (after entering as a wildcard), beating FO champ Li Na in R2; in 2012, she beat FO champ Sharapova in R4 (avenging the loss in the SF the previous year); she had also beaten FO champ Kuznetsova at Wimbledon in 2009. In 2013, she was definitely the hot favourite to win Wimbledon -- because she'd been dominant on the grass right through the tournament -- but Marion Bartoli somehow managed to win the title against a nervy Lisicki, and the latter has never quite been the same since.
Nonetheless, that was a HUGE win on grass for Ankita over the 2013 Wimbledon singles runner-up.

[PKBasu]

How many of the men in the Golden Oldies thread can say they have beaten a USO champion (who was also FO finalist) and a Wimbledon runner-up? Ankita has had a couple of truly big scalps this year.

[sameerph]

Ankita is playing in Nottingham WTA qualies today.

At $250K Nature Valley Open, Nottingham(Grass)

[Q1] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,170) vs. Kai-Lin Zhang (CHN,204)

Ankita is 1-1 head to head against Zhang winning in straight sets in Pune in 2018 but losing in 3 close sets early this year at Anning on clay.

[jaydeep]

Ankita enters into the final qualifying round as Kai-Lin retired from the match after losing the first set ... She is facing an Aussie, Ellen Perez, who defeated her higher-ranked countrywoman Birrell.

At $250K Nature Valley Open 2019, Nottingham, Great Britain (Grass)

[Q1] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,170) bt Kai-Lin Zhang (CHN,204) 63 retd.

[Q2] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,170) vs Ellen Perez (AUS,207)

[PKBasu]

Ankita failed to qualify for the WTA tournament, sadly:

[Q2] 8-Ankita Raina (IND,170) l. Ellen Perez (AUS,207) 16 63 36

[sameerph]

Ankita gets in as a lucky loser and is playing her first round matches right now against another lucky loser ( again indoors)-

[R1] (LL) Ankita Raina (IND,173) vs. (LL) Chloe Paqyet (FRA,168) 22

[Dinesh]

How lucky can she get! LOL!

[Daniel]

How lucky can she get! LOL!

Very! She just won the first set 7-5

[sameerph]

She loses the second set 4-6.

[sameerph]

She lost in 3 sets.

[R1] (LL) Ankita Raina (IND,173) l. (LL) Chloe Paqyet (FRA,168) 75 46 26

Unfortunate that Ankita could not take advantage of that lucky break in the draw.

[sameerph]

Ankita had a one sided loss in the Birminghan WTA qualies.

At Nature Valley Classic, Birmingham,UK

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,173) l. (3) Jessica Pegula (USA,75) 16 06

Not the ideal preparation for Wimbledon qualies for Ankita.