Sunitha Rao thread ...

[jayakris]

It could get pretty warm and windy out there in the high desert and the ball could be flying around. I won't be surprised if the qualifiers had a much better handle on the conditions than the maind raw players. Still a bagel set lost to a qualifier is pretty bad or Sunitha. I guess she is struggling with everything, once again.

Jay

[usaindian]

at $75,000 Midland, MI 2009
Sunitha RAO (IND) Vs Vania KING (USA) (8)

[jaydeep]

Again Sunitha lost in the first round but this time improved perormance by her against higher ranked opponents in singles and doubles.

At $75K Midland Tournament, MI, USA

[R1] Sunitha Rao (IND,216) l (8) Vania King (USA,118) 16 64 64

Doubles
[R1] Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Story Tweedie-Yates (USA) l Kai-Chen Chang (TPE)/ Stephanie Foretz (FRA) 26 75 (7)10

[jayakris]

That is a good competitive match from Sunitha after quite a while. Hope she is getting into some form now. Jay

[suresh]

Sunitha has always been a streaky player -- has stretches where she loses to everybody and then goes on a tear winning a lot of matches. I hope the close loss indicates that she might get back to winning.

[usaindian]

At Clearwater,FL 50k Qualifying round
Sharon FICHMAN (CAN) Vs Sunitha RAO (IND) (5)

[Sandeep]

Fichman is on song this year. If Sunitha wins, I would consider it as a terrific win keeping in view her recent performances.

[Sandeep]

As expected Fichman crushed Sunitha 6-2, 6-0! Ofcourse as I mentioned earlier Fichman is playing extraordinary tennis this year

[Sandeep]

Another disappointment from Sunitha Rao. She lost to Natalia Ryzhinkova of Russia in the qualifying rounds of $25,000 Fort Walton Beach tournament. She lost 3-6, 7-5 6-7(2)

[sameerph]

Sunitha's bad run continues.

At $25K Hammond challanger, LA

[R1] Sunitha RAO (IND,231) l. Jorgelina CRAVERO (ARG,179) 15 ( retd.)

[sameerph]

Another 1st round loss for Sunitha this week .

At $ 25k Osprey challanger, Florida, USA

[R1] Sunitha RAO (IND,260) l. Laura SIEGEMUND (GER,294) 36 36

Sunitha has not yet won a match this year & is 0-8 for the season. Sad to see see such bad run for Sunitha after having a very good first half of 2008 when she reached her career high ranking of 144.

[jai_in_canada]

Haven't heard from Sunitha's neurotic coach recently. Always enjoyed his incoherent rants, some of which were even aimed at supportive comments.

[vparam]

Sunitha has not played a match since April. Anyone know what her situation is?

[vparam]

Let me asked again in case some of us were too busy with the happenings at the French and Wimbledon, but does anyone have news on Sunitha Rao? If she is injured, there has been no news concerning when she will return to the tour.

[jaydeep]

vparam, I don't think anyone here know about her current whereabout and injury (if any) status ... So as of now we all r in dark, lets hope somebody give us firsthand info about her.

Jaydeep