Zeel Desai thread

[jayakris]

Kazionova used to be ranked inside 300, IIRC. Not surprised about this result. Zeel is at best a 500-level player.

It is the scoreline that is bothersome. She is unable to even put up much of a fight. Oh well...

[jayakris]

Zeel's scores from the W35 in Casablanca this week is being followed in the misc.results abroad thread, as Vaishnavi is also there in Casablanca.

[jayakris]

Zeel's scores from the W35 in Mohammedia (Morocco) this week is being followed in the misc.results abroad thread, as Vaishnavi is also there.

[jayakris]

Zeel is at the ITF W15 in Monastir, TUN (Hard).

[R1] (3) Zeel Desai (IND,562) d. (Q) Eva Zabolotnaia (RUS,ITF-432), 60 61
[R2] (3) Zeel Desai (IND,562) d. Hanna Bougouffa (FRA,1017), 64 61
[QF] (3) Zeel Desai (IND,562) vs (5) Marie Villet (FRA,722)

[sameerph]

Zeel justified her seeding and goes thru to the SF.

At the ITF W15 in Monastir, TUN (Hard).

[QF] (3) Zeel Desai (IND,562) d. (5) Marie Villet (FRA,722) 64 16 63

Next,

[SF] (3) Zeel Desai (IND,562) vs (1) Arianna Geerlings (ESP,503)

[Dinesh]

Zeel is also in the doubles finals with Irish partner Celine Simunyu. Positive week for her so far!

[sameerph]

Zeel lost in the SF in a close match.

At the ITF W15 in Monastir, TUN (Hard).

[SF] (3) Zeel Desai (IND,562) l. (1) Arianna Geerlings (ESP,503) 16 64 36

I really do not know why she keeps playing these W15 events when she could have played in W35's in Thailand instead where she would have got into main draw.

[jayakris]

At the ITF W15 in Monastir, TUN (Hard).

[R1] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,562) d. (Q) Ustiniya Lekomtseva (RUS,ITF-267), 61 63
so
[R2] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,562) vs (Q) Kseniya Yersh (RUS,ITF-338)

[jayakris]

[R2] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,562) d. (Q) Kseniya Yersh (RUS,ITF-338), 67(7) 76(2) 63
so
[QF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,562) vs Dasha Plekhanova (RUS,1025)

The R2 turned out to be a much tougher match than I expected.

[jayakris]

[QF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,562) l. Dasha Plekhanova (RUS,1025), 76(5) 46 46

[Edit: Took out some "analysis" that I had put in here earlier, as I was distressed at the loss and misread the point progression shown at the ITF site]

[sameerph]

Zeel has been playing in Tunisia last 2 weeks again.

Last week she lost in the second round. This week she has made it thru to the SF.

At the ITF W15 in Monastir, TUN (Hard).

[R1] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,573) d. Eliska Tichackova (CZE,1166) 62 76(5)
[R2] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,573) d. Julia Adams (USA,941) 62 75
[QF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,573) d. (6) Marie Vogt (GER,651) 64 36 76(3)

Next,

[SF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,573) vs. (2) Sakura Hosogi (JPN,473)

[sameerph]

Zeel lost in the SF.

At the ITF W15 in Monastir, TUN (Hard).

[SF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,573) l. (2) Sakura Hosogi (JPN,473) 16 46