Sunitha Rao thread ...

[Atithee]

Gawd! It is getting harder to enjoy even a "beedi" now let alone a Wills, Panama, or a Capstan cigarette. Regular cigars are out of reach and Cubans seem to be stuff of dreams. I might have to resort to the candy cigars that are routinely distributed around the office in celebration of baby births. At my age, even that seems difficult now as my close friends and office mates are done having babies. I guess I've to hire some young ones or coax my boss into the same because I really want that cigar.

Where is the WTATourCoach? Let us hear from him. What's ailing Sunitha? I promise not to question his assertions.

[BSharma]

Come on Sunitha. You are a very good player and I hope you get over your losing ways soon.

[jaydeep]

Hopefully this week Sunitha will be back on her winning ways in singles with Canadian challenger.

At $50K Saguenay Womens Challenger, Canada

[R1] Sunitha Rao (IND,212) vs (LL) Tori Kinard (USA,808)

Doubles -
[R1] (4) Veronika Chvojkova (CZE)/ Sunitha Rao (IND) vs Carmen Klaschka (GER)/ Sabine Klaschka (GER)

[jaydeep]

Started with easy win.

At $50K Saguenay Womens Challenger, Canada

[R1] Sunitha Rao (IND,212) bt (LL) Tori Kinard (USA,808) 63 60

[jaydeep]

At $50K Saguenay Womens Challenger, Canada

[R2] Sunitha Rao (IND,212) vs Ana Timotic (SRB,437)

Doubles -
[R1] (4) Veronika Chvojkova (CZE)/ Sunitha Rao (IND) l Carmen Klaschka (GER)/ Sabine Klaschka (GER) 36 36

[gautam]

Sunitha beat TIMOTIC, Ana (SRB) 6-3 6-1
Good to see Sunitha win some matches..

[sameerph]

At $50K Saguenay Womens Challenger, Canada

[QF] (7) Sunitha RAO (IND,212) l. Carmen KLASCHKA (GER,244) 46 16

So, Sunitha still seems to be struggling with her game a bit but at she had 2 good win this week.

[sameerph]

At $25K challenger , Laguna Nigel, CA

[R1] (8) Sunitha RAO (IND,196) l. Alina JIDKOVA (RUS,237) 46 75 46

[jaydeep]

Disappointing result, in doubles she and her Russian partner lost against wild-card pair after winning the first set 6-0.

Doubles
[R1] Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Alexandra Panova (RUS) l (WC) Anne Yelsey (USA)/ Riza Zalameda (USA) 60 67(3) (4)10

[Catapult]

Any pics of sunitha?

Hello btw my first post here.

[Sandeep]

Sunitha is playing at $25K Rancho Mirage in both singles and doubles. Her singles opponent is yet to be decided (qualifier) while she is partnering Pelletier of Canada in doubles and will be playing Gibbs/Tan of USA (wild card entrants) in the first round. Go Sunitha

[jaydeep]

Sunitha is facing veteran Italian qualifier in the singles first round ... But she and her Canadian doubles top-100 partner lost in the first round against wild-card pair.

At $25K Rancho Mirage Tournament, CA, USA

[R1] (5) RAO Sunitha (IND,196) vs (Q) PIOPPO Elena (ITA,379)

Doubles
[R1] (2) PELLETIER Marie-Eve (CAN)/ RAO Sunitha (IND) l (WC) GIBBS Nicole (USA)/ TAN Stacey (USA) 16 63 (8)10

[Atithee]

Do we know if Sunitha has changed the coach or is she still with the WTATourCoach? Her recent results are not good and I wonder if she has adequate support to cope up with not only these losses, but also the passport controversy.

[jaydeep]

Sunitha's woeful result continue ... This time she lost against below 350 ranked Italian qualifier.

At $25K Rancho Mirage Tournament, CA, USA

[R1] (5) RAO Sunitha (IND,196) l (Q) PIOPPO Elena (ITA,379) 06 46

[Sandeep]

This is a real bad loss for Sunitha. Elena Pioppo was certainly beatable but instead Sunitha lost without even a fight.

By the way, among the 8 quarter finalists at Rancho Mirage, 5 are qualifiers!!! And only one seed is left in the draw. Amazing number of upsets.