Sahaja Yamalapalli thread

[sameerph]

Sahaja meets a fellow qualifier in first round.

At ITF W100 Charleston, SC, USA (Green Clay)

[R1] (Q) Sahaja Yamlapalli (IND,423) vs. (Q) DJ Bennett (USA,789)

[jayakris]

[R1] (Q) Sahaja Yamlapalli (IND,423) d. (Q) DJ Bennett (USA,789), 64 60

[sameerph]

She will play the fifth seed next.

At ITF W100 Charleston, SC, USA (Green Clay)

[R2] (Q) Sahaja Yamlapalli (IND,423) vs. (5) Elizabeth Mandlik (USA,127)

[Omkara]

While all wins are against lower ranked players, i feel these are decent results. Real challenge going ahead. She should put up a good fight

[jayakris]

[R2] (Q) Sahaja Yamlapalli (IND,423) l. (5) Elizabeth Mandlik (USA,127), 36 06

[arjun2761]

^^^^ Mandlik had the gene advantage being the daughter of a 4 time GS singles champion!

[sameerph]

Yes, Sahaja is still not at the level to upset these players close to top 100. Hopefully, she will get there with more matches at this level. She is now upto # 387 in live rankings, close to her career high rankings of #380. Still has 15 points to defend this year, she will play W25 in Austin, Texas next week.

[PKBasu]

^^^^ Mandlik had the gene advantage being the daughter of a 4 time GS singles champion!

Oh wow, I wonder why she didn't keep her mother's full surname of Mandlikova -- her grandfather (Hana's father) was an Olympics sprinter, and had the Mandlik surname. Apparently her biological father was a friend of Hana's who had agreed to have no role in parenting the twins, and they were brought up with another male partner of Hana's .

[jayakris]

^^^ Adding the "ova" for females is a language/culture thing, and the family name of Mandlikova is actually Mandlik (as in the grandfather name), right? She must have decided to stick with the American/English tradition of not changing the family name for females, I assume.

[suresh]

Doesn't the suffix ova mean "daughter of"? It makes sense that Hana dropped it in her daughter's surname.

[Dinesh]

Sahaja fails to capitalize on a weaker opening round at the W25 Austin, Texas event.

R1 Sahaja Yamalapalli (387) 6-3 4-6 4-6 Mary Stoiana (USA,591)

She is skipping the W25 Bengaluru event that starts next week and hasn’t entered anywhere else either.

[VReddy]

Sahaja fails to capitalize on a weaker opening round

Opponent is currently the No. 1 ranked singles player in the College Tennis rankings: https://12thman.com/news/2023/11/15/wom ... kings.aspx