ITF W15 New Delhi, W25 Pune, March 1-14, 2021

[sameerph]

Apart from mens futures where we have opened a thread, there are 2 womens tournaments too starting next week with a W15 in Delhi and W25 in Pune.

This is the entry list for W15 in Delhi-

1 IND Riya Bhatia 353
2 ROU Miriam Bianca Bulgaru 380
3 IND Rutuja Bhosale 431
4 IND Zeel Desai 636
5 IND Sowjanya Bavisetti 641
6 RUS Irina Khromacheva 645
7 SLO Pia Lovric 762
8 HUN Adrienn Nagy 815
9 IND Sathwika Sama 859
10 IND Mihika Yadav 907
11 CZE Nikola Breckova 912
12 IND Jennifer Luikham 948
13 IND Vaidehi Chaudhari 1075
14 IND Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty 1100
15 IND Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 1104
16 LAT Darja Semenistaja 1127
17 CZE Lucie Petruzelova 1206
18 IND Bhuvana Kalva 1266

[sameerph]

This is the entry list for W25 at Pune-

Main draw -

1 ESP Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 229
2 GBR Francesca Jones 245
3 GER Katharina Gerlach 249
4 GBR Jodie Anna Burrage 259
5 FRA Amandine Hesse 283
6 SWE Mirjam Bjorklund 319
7 MKD Lina Gjorcheska 350
8 HUN Panna Udvardy 352
9 IND Riya Bhatia 353
10 USA Emina Bektas 357
11 BRA Carolina Meligeni Rodrigues Alves 374
12 ROU Miriam Bianca Bulgaru 380
13 GEO Sofia Shapatava 384
14 BRA Laura Pigossi 398
15 BEL Magali Kempen 425
16 IND Rutuja Bhosale 431
17 GBR Tara Moore 447
18 UKR Marianna Zakarlyuk 490
19 GBR Emily Webley-Smith 517
20 IND Zeel Desai 636


Qualifying -

1 IND Sowjanya Bavisetti 641
2 RUS Irina Khromacheva 645
3 IND Pranjala Yadlapalli 691
4 SLO Pia Lovric 762
5 RUS Valeriya Olyanovskaya 781
6 GER Jasmin Jebawy 811
7 HUN Adrienn Nagy 815
8 IND,Sathwika Sama 859
9 IND Mihika Yadav 907

[vishalg]

Glad to see Pranjala back on ITF events.
The email addresses of tournament directors is available on tournament page of ITF, can someone reach out to them and see if they will provide a basic YouTube stream.

[sameerph]

I am a bit worried about Pune ITF. Maharashtra covid cases are increasing now. If another lockdown happens, it may become difficult to host this.

[Dinesh]

Surprised not to see Karman on any of these lists. Why must all of our promising young players get injured?

Pranjala should reach the latter end of the $25K tournament, based on her form in the Australian UTR circuit. I think she has finally decided (or allowed?) to leave the continent?

Khromacheva is a dark horse here, who was ranked in the top-100 four years ago.

[PKBasu]

Main draw action only starts tomorrow (2nd March). There are 3 rounds of qualifying, of which one was completed yesterday. Q2 happening today, and possibly Q3 as well.
There will be 6 qualifying slots. The top seed (Emma Von Poppel of the Netherlands) got a Q1 bye. The second seed is Aditi Sinha of the US, and the next four seeds are Indians. The top 6 seeds are all playing their Q2 matches today.

[sameerph]

Sharmada Balu and Rishika Sunkara are making a comeback here. Sharmada played her last match in 2016 while Rishika last played in 2018. They are trying to come thru qualifying.

[suresh]

Yes, the order of play shows Q2 and Q3 for today. Lots of double bagels in Q2 -- 3 so far with Nidhi Chilumula, Sai Samhitha and Akanksha Nitture winning in this fashion over clearly over-matched Indian players.

[suresh]

Sharmada Balu and Rishika Sunkara are making a comeback here. Sharmada played her last match in 2016 while Rishika last played in 2018. They are trying to come thru qualifying.

They were decent players. Any idea as to why they quit playing tennis?

[sameerph]

No idea. Maybe injuries. Yes, they were quite decent players. They have earned their thread on sports-india forum after all.

[PKBasu]

Ayushi Singh beat 2nd seeded 17 year old Aditi Sinha (USA, 1325 ITF) 64 61.
Bela Tamhankar beat the top seed Emma Von Poppel (NED, 1189ITF) 76(11) 62.

They must come back and play their Q3 matches this afternoon.

[suresh]

So with the two non-Indian players losing in Q2, all qualifiers will be Indian.

[sameerph]

Following are the 6 Indian qualfiers -

18 year Smriti Bhasin ( beat Bela Tamhankar who had upset top seed in Q2)
18 year old Farhar Aleen Qamar
17 year old Akanksha Nitture ( who upset third seed Snehal Mane in Q3)
Nidhi Chilumula
Sai Samitha Chamarthi
Sharmada Balu

Last 3 are all seasoned players who have played few years on the circuit.
So, we will have as many 25 Indian in the main draw of 32.

[Dinesh]

Great to see some of these seasoned Indian players coming back and qualifying. Kinda disappointed not to see Kyra Shroff in here even though she has been training all the time in Spain hinting on a comeback.

[sameerph]

Main draw with today's results updated -

(1) Riya BHATIA IND d. (WC) Yubarani BANERJEE IND 63 63
(Q) Smriti BHASIN IND vs Jennifer LUIKHAM IND
Elena JAMSHIDI DEN d. Mihika YADAV IND 36 76(5) 75
(7) Pia LOVRIC SLO vs Lucie PETRUZELOVA CZE
(4) Zeel DESAI IND d. Nikola BRECKOVA CZE 64 62
Bhuvana KALVA IND vs Ashmitha EASWARAMURTHI IND
Humera BAHARMUS IND d. Shrivalli Rashmikaa BHAMIDIPATY IND 63 75
(6) Sowjanya BAVISETTI IND vs Sathwika SAMA IND
(8) Adrienn NAGY HUN vs q Nidhi CHILUMULA IND
(WC) Prerna BHAMBRI IND vs wc Soha SADIQ IND
Sravya Shivani CHILAKALAPUDI IND d. (WC) Jagmeet Kaur GREWAL IND 64 60
(3) Rutuja BHOSALE IND d. Likhitha KALAVA IND 60 62
(5) Irina KHROMACHEVA RUS vs Saumya VIG IND
(Q) Farhat Aleen QAMAR IND vs (Q) Akanksha Dileep NITTURE IND
(Q) Sharmada BALU IND vs (Q) Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI IND
(2) Miriam Bianca BULGARU ROU vs Vaidehi CHAUDHARI IND

So, 2 matches involving oyr players matches against foreign players- Zeel Desai comfortably beat her Czeck opponent while Mihika lost in a close one against her Danish opponent.