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^^^ I stopped watching at that point and Ankita won
1-6 1-5 to 1-6 7-5 6-1
Next: Despite being the favorite (in terms of ranking), I hope Rutuja manages to beat Shimizu considering Asian players, especially Japanese perform well in these Indian ITFs. Ankita awaits the winner of this encounter.
Vaidehi meets #189 Carol Monnet of France next, the #6 seed. Tough match, but then again, you are at home. If you want to move up, you need to upset people. Hope she pulls it through. Don't expect it, but let's go.
[R2] (Q) Vaidehi Chaudhari (IND,503) l. (6) Carol Monnet (FRA,189) 76(5) 46 46
Close last few games. Monnet serving at 4-3, Vaidehi had 2 breakpoints to level at 4-4 but she could not, than Vaidehi saved a match point serving at 3-5, 30-40, than while serving for the match Monnet saved 4 breakpoints and won on her third match point.
Close but no cigar for Vaidehi. Anyway, 6 points will move Vaidehi up to around 485 in rankings.
Excellent upset win for Rutuja against Japanese 4th seed. It was a lot of drama with Rutuja was cruising thru at 64 53 ( 40-15), messed up on those 2 match points, missed another match point in next Moyuka service game and went on to lose that set.
Then, in third set Rutuja was down double break at 2-5 but somehow got back to 5-5, got broken again and it was almost 10 min or so service game for Moyuka at 6-5 where she too missed a couple of match points and Rutuja finally broke for 6-6 and than played a very good tie break.
For next week’s W50 at Pune, we have Ankita, Rutuja, Sahaja making the main draw directly. I believe 3 of the 4 the wildcards were awarded to Vaidehi, SRB, and Vaishnavi Adkar as I don’t see their names in the QD.
In the QD, other the 2 matches involving Indians - Zeel playing WC Sanjana Sirimalla, and Humera playing Akanksha Dileepan Nitture, not expecting any other Indian to beat their foreign opponents. Kristina Mladenovic is still shown in the entry list although she has reached the women’s doubles 3R at the AO. So there might be a chance for a lucky loser spot for those that win their QR1 today.
