Prarthana Thombare thread

[Dinesh]

Prarthana and Jessy Rompies are playing their first round match against Nao Hibino/Carol Zhao pair today at the W100 Charleston ITF.

[Dinesh]

Prarthana/Jessy comfortably takes the first set 6-1.

At the W100 ITF Charleston, South Carolina (Har-Tru clay)

R1 Jessy Rompies/Prarthana Thombare 6-1 6-3 Nao Hibino/Carol Zhao

QF will be a tough one against either the 2nd seeded American pair Santamaria/Christian or unseeded American duo of Brengle/Mateas.

[Dinesh]

Prarthana and Jessy upset the 2nd seeds to move to SF at Charleston. I watch the match and they seemed pretty out of sync in the first set but regrouped after that.

At W100 ITF Charleston, South Carolina (Har-Tru clay)

QF Jessy Rompies (INA,157) /Prarthana Thombare (IND,181) 2-6 6-2 11-9 (2) Kaitlyn Christian (USA,78) / Sabrina Santamaria (USA,82)

Ranking wise, I think this is the best win for PGT. Moved to #166 in the live rankings now.

[jayakris]

Yep, that is a really good upset win!

[sameerph]

Prarthana and Jessy lost to American pairing of Krueger and Montgomery in the SF - 76(5) 46 5-10.

Next week this pairing will be Charlottesville W60.

[Dinesh]

They were leading 3-1 in the second set. A bad miss from being in the driver’s seat. Better luck next week!

[Dinesh]

PGT and Jessy reached the semifinals this week at the W60 Charlottesville ITF.

Next week, they will be at the WTA 125 St Malo in France. There will be a few more similar tournaments the following weeks, which I assume this pairing would feature in. Happy to see this partnership growing. Here’s to better results and some trophies this year

[Dinesh]

PGT withdrew from the WTA125 event in France and decided to stay in the US. Good decision by her since traveling to another continent and switching from Har-Tru to red clay might not have produced fruitful results.

At the W100 Bonita Springs ITF, Florida (Har-Tru)

R1 Prarthana G Thombare/ Yuriko Lily Miyazaki (GBR) 6-3 6-1 Maria Mateas (USA)/ Robin Anderson (USA)

Up next, they play the strong pair of Ashlyn Krueger / Robin Montgomery to whom PGT/Jessy lost in the SF round couple weeks ago. Revenge time!

[sameerph]

Prarthana is playing W60 in Italy this week with Jessy Rompies and has reached the SF.

At W60 Caserta, Italy (Clay)

[R1] (3) Prarthana G Thombare (IND) / Jessy Rompies (INA) d. Anastasia Kovaleva (RUS) /Ksenia Zaytseva (RUS) 64 64

[QF] (3) Prarthana G Thombare (IND) / Jessy Rompies (INA) d. TamaraCurovic (SRB) /Elena Malygina (EST) 64 63

Next,

[SF] (3) Prarthana G Thombare (IND) / Jessy Rompies (INA) vs. (1) Despina Papamichail (GRE) / Camilla Rosatello (ITA)

[Atithee]

I wish every post in this forum would have a “doubles alert.”

[sameerph]

They lost a very close one in the SF.

At W60 Caserta, Italy (Clay)

[SF] (3) Prarthana G Thombare (IND) / Jessy Rompies (INA) l. (1) Despina Papamichail (GRE) / Camilla Rosatello (ITA) 75 67(9) 10-12

Prarthana and her partner missed multiple match points.

[Dinesh]

PGT and Anna Rogers (USA) are in the direct doubles main draw entry list at the Lausanne WTA 250.

[Dinesh]

PGT is playing with Russian Tikhonova this week and the pair seeded 2nd has reached the finals at the W60 Barcelona.

Will she get her second title of the year?

[Dinesh]

PGT and Tikhonova won the W60 Barcelona title defeating Cascino/Marcinkevica pair 3-6 6-1 10-7. She moves to #171 with this win.

[sameerph]

Prarthana and her Greek partner Valentini won the W75 title this week.

At ITF W75 Split, Croatia (Clay)

[R1] (1) Valentini GRAMMATIKOPOULOU (GRE)/ Prarthana G THOMBARE (IND) d. Nigina ABDURAIMOVA (UZB)/ Veronika MIROSHNICHENKO (RUS) 64 76(6)

[QF] (1) Valentini GRAMMATIKOPOULOU (GRE)/ Prarthana G THOMBARE (IND) d. Anna ROGERS (USA)/ Olivia TJANDRAMULIA (AUS) 75 62

[SF] (1) Valentini GRAMMATIKOPOULOU (GRE)/ Prarthana G THOMBARE (IND) d. (4) Estelle CASCINO (FRA)[/ Carole MONNET (FRA)[ 64 75

[F] (1) Valentini GRAMMATIKOPOULOU (GRE)/ Prarthana G THOMBARE (IND) d. (2) Veronika ERJAVEC (SLO)[2]/ Justina MIKULSKYTE (LTU) 64 61

With that Prarthana will move up to a ranking of 153, I think her highest ranking since 4-5 years.