$25K Delhi Womens' ITF (Aug 23rd)

[jayakris]

OK, here are all the singles results so far. It does not look like much got done today either (there may be some more results which may come in later today)

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Qualifying Round 1:

1 Kumiko Iijuma (JPN)      d.    Parul Goswami (IND)        64 63
11 Yoo-Mi Jung (KOR)        d.    Katie Miles (GBR)          62 60
2 Thassha Vitayaviroj(THA) d.    Minori Takemota (JPN)      63 76(4)
15 Sandhya Nagraj (IND)     d.    Anupama Rajur (IND)        62 64
3 Soo Mi Yoo (KOR)         d.    Rebecca Fong (GBR)         62 63
12 Orawan Lamangthong (THA) d.    Nandini Perumal (IND)      76(4) 75
4 Cassandra Barr (AUS)     d.    Chirshanthi Rajur (IND)    61 61
9 Naoko Horikawa (JPN)     d.    Sheethal Goutham (IND)     57 64 61
5 Yi Chen (TPE)            d.    Varanya Vijuksanaboon(THA) 76(4) 61
10 Mari Inoue (JPN)         d.    Ryoko Watanabe (JPN)       61 62
6 Iciri Rai (IND)          d.  W Vishika Chhetri (IND)      63 67(6) 61
14 Geeta Manohar (IND)      d.    Julia Dziedzic (AUS)       75 64
W Karishma Patel (IND)     d.  7 Samrita Sekar (IND)        61 75
13 Lata Assudani (IND)      d.    Rati Kumar (IND)           61 61
   I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE)      d.  8 Po-Kuen Lam (HKG)          61 62
16 Punam Reddy (IND)        d.    Preeti Rao (IND)           61 62

Qualifiers Second Round:

1 Kumiko Iijuma (JPN)      d. 11 Yoo-Mi Jung (KOR)          60 67(3) 63
2 Thassha Vitayaviroj(THA) d. 15 Sandhya Nagraj (IND)       62 62
3 Soo Mi Yoo (KOR)         d. 12 Orawan Lamangthong (THA)   61 63
4 Cassandra Barr (AUS)     d.  9 Naoko Horikawa (JPN)       36 62 62
5 Yi Chen (TPE)            d. 10 Mari Inoue (JPN)           75 61
6 Iciri Rai (IND)          d. 14 Geeta Manohar (IND)        67(4) 64 63
W Karishma Patel (IND)     d. 13 Lata Assudani (IND)        63 62
16 Punam Reddy (IND)        d.    I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE)        61 75


Main Draw Round 1:

1 Antonia Matic (GER)      vs   Gabriela Velasco-Andreu(ESP)
W Sonal Phadke (IND)       vs   Jayaram-Sai Jayalakshmy(IND)
W Archana Venkatraman(IND) vs W Liza Pereira (IND)
5 Napaporn Tongsalee (THA) vs   Nicole Kirz (AUS)
3 Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) vs Q Yi Chen (TPE)     
W Sanaa Bhambri (IND)      d.   Kyung-Mi Chang (KOR)         63 63
  Montinee Tangphong (THA) vs Q Cassandra Barr (AUS)     
8 Aurelie Vedy (FRA)       vs   Sania Mirza (IND)     
6 Ryoko Takemura (JPN)     vs   Tiffany Welford (AUS)     
  Ankita Bhambri (IND)     d. Q Punam Reddy (IND)            46 62 75
Q Kumiko Iijima (JPN)      d. Q Geeta Manohar (IND)          75 75
4 So-Jung Kim (KOR)        vs   Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)
7 Rushmi Chakravarthi(IND) d.   Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)           62 62
  Thassha Vitayaviroj(THA) vs Q Soo-Mi Yoo (KOR)
  Shelley Stephens (NZL)   d. Q Karishma Patel (IND)         60 57 63
2 Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)   d. Q Iciri Rai (IND)              60 64

Preety damn good work by Karishma Patel who turned 17 only a couple of months back... Remember that Punam is ranked #120 and I-Hsuan, whom she beat in the qualies is ranked #61 in the juniors! .. That qualies win goes as a big one. Then she pushed Ankita all the way to a 7-5 third set too. Punam has really shown some good improvement lately.

And, great win by Sanaa. Good to see her play well after a long time. She got seriously injured at this time last year in the US and has taken a long time to get back ..


Jay

[jayakris]

By the way, Rushmi's win over #374 Su-Wei Hsieh is impressive too .. #374 Su-Wei was a top-10 junior a couple of years back and had also reached WTA #130 in jul 2002 (she is still only 18, and is on a comeback trail after injury which saw her reach the final of the Seoul $25K three months back - she had beaten Sunitha 62 64 in the SF there) ...

Is it weird or what, how Rushmi can seemingly beat anybody in India and can seemingly beat nobody in the top-400 abroad?

Jay

[jirobkk]

Just got mail from New Delhi.

It's still raining today, no matches play. The ITF said they want to finish all first round match at least. The tournament will be cancelled if they have to wait until Friday. For sure they will cancel the double match !!!!!

Hope that tomorrow the wether will be clear.

[Red_Indian]

Hope that tomorrow the wether will be clear.

No rain here today.. I think they got a load of matches in... these are the results I caught off PTI:

Sanaa needed exactly an hour to shock the third seed, Emily Webley-Smith of Great Britain, 6-2 6-4 in the second round here today.

The Briton was probably at a disadvantage as she had to play the match within hours of her 6-4 6-1 first round victory over Chinese Taipei qualifier Yi Chen.

The 16-year old Delhi girl will face a tough task when she takes on Sania tomorrow in the last-eight tie.

Clear weather is forecast for the rest of the week(end).

[Daniel]

Great news for the Indian players! It appears that Sania, Sanaa, Ankita and Rushmi all made the QF!

I was scouting for some results hoping to find them on some online newspaper. Instead I found them on Jiro's website!

Main Draw
First Round
(1)MATIC ANTONIA (GER) d. VELASCO- ANDREU GABRIELA (ESP) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2
PHADKE SONAL (IND) vs JAYALAKSHMY JAYARAM SAI (IND)
VENKATARAMAN ARCHANA (IND) d. PEREIRA LIZA (IND) 7-6 (2) 6-2
(5) TONGSALEE NAPAPORN (THA) d. KRIZ NICOLE (AUS) 6-1,6-1

(3)WEBLEY-SMITH EMILY (GBR) d. Q-CHEN YI (TPE) 6-4,6-1
Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) d. Kyung-Mi CHANG (KOR) 63 63
TANGPHONG MONTINEE (THA) d. Q-Cassandra BARR (AUS) 7-6 (3) 6-3
MIRZA SANIA (IND) vs (8)VEDY AURELIE (FRA)

WELFORD TIFFANY (AUS) d. (6)TAKEMURA RYOKO (JPN) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3)
Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) d. Q-Punam REDDY (IND) 46 62 75
Q-Kumiko IIJIMA (JPN) d. Q-Geeta MANOHAR (IND) 75 75
AMANMURADOVA AKGUL (UZB) d. (4)KIM SO -JUNG (KOR) 6-3, 6-4

(7)Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) d. Su-Wei HSIEH (TPE) 62 62
Q-YOO SOO MI (KOR) d. Q-VITAYAVIROJ THASSHA (THA) 7-5, 6-1
Shelley STEPHENS (NZL) d. Q-Karishma PATEL (IND) 60 57 63
(2) Chia-Jung CHUANG (TPE) d. Q-Iciri RAI (IND) 60 64

Second Round
(1)MATIC ANTONIA (GER) vs PHADKE SONAL (IND) or JAYALAKSHMY JAYARAM SAI (IND)
(5) TONGSALEE NAPAPORN (THA) d. VENKATARAMAN ARCHANA (IND) 6-3, 6-1
Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) d. (3)WEBLEY-SMITH EMILY (GBR) 6-3,6-4
TANGPHONG MONTINEE (THA) vs MIRZA SANIA (IND) or (8)VEDY AURELIE (FRA)

Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) d. WELFORD TIFFANY (AUS) 6-3, 6-3
AMANMURADOVA AKGUL (UZB) vs Q-Kumiko IIJIMA (JPN)
(7)Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) d. Q-YOO SOO MI (KOR) 6-4, 6-2
(2) Chia-Jung CHUANG (TPE) vs Shelley STEPHENS (NZL)

A big Thank You to Jiro who proved to be quicker than newspapers and the ITF!

[jirobkk]

You are welcome Daniel.

I should post the score here after I've been uploading in my homepage. I'm very busy in my office today.

Anyway thanks for posting.

[jaydeep]

WOW ... thats great result for indian tennis ... so many gals r showing positive results is a good sign for indian tennis ... it looks we r going in right direction to produce posirtive results in a single tournament.

thanks Jiro and Daniel.

jaydeep

[jayakris]

2nd Round

Antonia MATIC (GER) defeated Sonal PHADKE (IND) 63 61
Napaporn TONGSALEE (THA) defeated Archana VENKATARAMAN (IND) 63 61
Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) defeated Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 62 64
Sania MIRZA (IND) defeated Montinee TANGPHONG (THA) 64 64
Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) defeated Tiffany WELFORD (AUS) 63 63
Not PlayedRushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) defeated Soo-Mi YOO (KOR) 64 62
Chia-Jung CHUANG (TPE) defeated Shelley STEPHENS (NZL) 64 76(1)

Quarterfinal

Napaporn TONGSALEE (THA) defeated Antonia MATIC (GER) 64 63
Sania MIRZA (IND) defeated Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) 62 64
Akgul AMANMURADOVA (UZB) defeated Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) 63 36 75
Chia-Jung CHUANG (TPE) defeated Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) 63 46 64

Go Sania! ... But her show was expected .. I am so happy to see Sanaa playing this well .. What a beautiful upset in the R2 .. Ankita played a great match on Akgul too.

Jay

[Sandeep]

Sania has reached singles finals. This shows what an improvement sania made to her game. She is now consistently winning. Well Jay atleat now i guess u would believe that sania is better than ankita.

[nkoth]

Semifinal Scores:

Sania MIRZA (IND, 346) defeated Napaporn TONGSALEE (THA) 26 63 64
Chia-Jung CHUANG (TPE, 251) defeated Akgul AMANMURADOVA (UZB) 63 76(2)

Congrats to Sania for her big coming out party in New Delhi! She has picked up 20 big points so far, and can get another 9 if she wins the final tomorrow. So far, her ranking has moved up from 346 to around 301 in the world...

(Not to mention the fact that she hasn't lost a match outside of Fed Cup since a 3 set loss to Emilie Loit in APRIL.)

Win it tomorrow!
-neil

[jayakris]

nothingnew -- wow, did I ever say I thought Ankita was better than Sania... Hey, don't put words in my mouth!!!

Fantastic but expected work by Sania. Let's get that first challenger title, San...

Jay

[BSharma]

Go girl Sania.

[PKBasu]

Magnificent work continues from Sania. She has been unbeaten on the Futures circuit for months, and it would be fantastic if she can sustain that unbeaten streak at the higher, Challenger level too. She is certainly looking unstoppable.
This tournament is becoming a coming-out-party not only for Sania but also for Indian women's tennis generally. It was good to see Rushmi give a terrific fight in the QF (although she was only living up to her seeding, and we are painfully aware that her performances fall off drastically when she is outside India). But also fabulous of both Bhambri sisters to make the QF (especially Sanaa, whose form had been languishing for several months). And what a terrific fight by Ankita against Amanmuradova in the QF. This has been a very satisfying Challenger: when have there been 4 Indians in a Challenger QF? And to think that several of the top Indian women were missing!! (Isha and Megha, for instance...).

[gvhvhg]

im actually in delhi rite now....no chance tho to get out there to watch the action....headin back to ny tomorro just in time for the open

[nkoth]

Sania lost in the final 75 64...


-neil