Ankita Raina thread

[jayakris]

At Transylvania Open WTA 250, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA (Hard)

[Q1] (1) Ankita Raina (IND,198) vs. Ilona-Georgiana Ghioroaie (ROM,366)

The draw now shows Ghioroaie with a BYE in the Q1. Did Ankita make the main draw?

[Dinesh]

^^^ yes, due to Pavlyuchenkova’s withdrawal.

[sameerph]

Ankita gets a top 100 player in first round.

At Transylvania Open WTA 250, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA (Hard)

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,198) vs. (8) Jodie Burrage (GBR,91)

Ankita lost a very close one in third set tie break against Burrage in July in Poland WTA in July. Hope she turns around that result here.

[sameerph]

Ankita lost in a one sided match.

At Transylvania Open WTA 250, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA (Hard)

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,198) l. (8) Jodie Burrage (GBR,91) 06 26

[Omkara]

She once peaked at ranking of 250-300. Now she has peaked at 150-200. She may challenge someone ranked 125. Above that is clearly not her forte.

[Sanjay]

Ankita lost in a one sided match.

At Transylvania Open WTA 250, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA (Hard)

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,198) l. (8) Jodie Burrage (GBR,91) 06 26

Wow. Broken every service game.
The opponent lost her own serve twice which gave her 2 games.

[jayakris]

I suspect that she may have some physical issue bothering her. She would not lose that cheaply, otherwise. The opponent could have played at a very high level but Ankita is experienced enough to find some chinks in the armor and put up a fight usually.

[Dinesh]

I don’t agree with that although that seems to be the initial reaction on this forum when an Indian player loses. I watched the first set and Jodie was inspired to put on a good show in front of her BJK cup captain Anne Keothavong watching from the sidelines. Jodie played well, and Ankita succumbed.

[Dinesh]

Vivian Heisen (GER)/ Ankita Raina 6-7 6-4 9-11 Jodie Burrage (GBR)/ Jil Teichmann (SUI)

The Indo-German pair was serving for the match at 9-6.

[Dinesh]

Ankita will be in Australia next couple weeks playing in 2 W60 tournaments. Next week, she will be one of the top-4 seeds in the singles draw at W60 Brisbane. Prarthana is also in the entry list partnering Jessy Rompies.

[jayakris]

At the W60 in Brisbane, AUS (Hard)

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,201) vs Sakura Hosogi (JPN,278), Wednesday

In the doubles R1, Ankita and Darya Astakhova (RUS) beat Lily Fairclough and Olivia Gadecki of Australia, 63 75

[sameerph]

Ankita lost in first round.

At the W60 in Brisbane, AUS (Hard)

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,201) l. Sakura Hosogi (JPN,278) 16 36

So, this week both our #1's lost in first round in straight sets against lower ranked players.

[jayakris]

^^^ Is Ankita still safe for AO qualies?

[sameerph]

^^^ Yes, should be ok. Only 18 points to defend ( next week) till the AO qualies cut off date i.e 18th December. So, at worse she will fall to 210 -215 which is quite safe for AO qualies. She has 36 points to defend from 2 Indian W25's in December last year but they fall off after the cut off date. And hopefully, she will earn some points in next 4 weeks too.

Dont know if she is carrying some injury or something but has played only 2 tournaments post Asian games and lost badly in first round of both.

[PKBasu]

Ankita is through to the doubles SF in Sydney:

[QF] Ankita Raina/Darya Astakhova (IND/RUS) d. Sema Erika/Liu Fangzhou (JPN/CHN) 46 75 10-3

Pranjala, who is top-seeded in doubles, will play her QF (the last one remaining to be played) on Friday.