Winner of double crown here Dalila Jakupovic of Slovakia moved into the last four stage along with Belgian Marie Benoit Bulgarian Aleksandrina Naydenova and lone surviving seed Xinyun Han of China at the $25000 Endurance Aurangabad Open Women’s ITF Championships which is being organized by the EMMTC under the auspices of the ITF , AITA and the MSLTA at the EMMTC tennis courts here .
In the quarterfinal matches played today the 367 ranked Jakupovic who enjoyed a career best ranking of 234 last year moved into the last four without a sweat against sixth seeded Riko Sawayanagi of Japan . Jakupovic won the first set 6-3 and lead 1-0 as the Japanese pulled out due to a cramp in her back.
Jakupovic will take on 19 year old left hander Belgian Marie Beniot ranked 443 , Beniot outplayed Brit Harriet Dart 6-2,6-0 in less than a hour. Beniot who won a $10000 event at Sharmal Shaikh in Egypt at the end of January this year will look to making her maiden $25K event final.
22 year old Bulgarian Aleksandrina Naydenova who shocked seventh seeded Tadeja Majeric of Slovakia yesterday continued her upset spree as she toppled second seeded and 166 ranked Kai-Lin Zhang of China 6-4,6-1 in over 2 hours. Naydenova who also has a $10 K title to her credit will take on another Chinese and the lone remaining seed in the event Xinyun Han in the semifinals . The Eighth seeded Han scored a 7-5, 6-1 win over Valentyna Ivakhnenko of Russia in 1 hour and 57 minutes .
Singles Quarterfinals
Dalila Jakupovic ( Slo) bt Riko Sawayanagi ( Jpn) [6] 6-3,1-0 (Retd)
Marie Benoit (Bel ) bt Harriet Dart (Gbr) 6-2, 6-0
Xinyun Han [8] (CHN) bt Valentyna Ivakhnenko (RUS) 7-5,6-1
Aleksandrina Naydenova (BUL) bt Kai-Lin Zhang [2] (CHN) 6-4,6-1
Doubles Quarterfinals
Ching-Wen HSU / Pei-Chi LEE ( Tpe) bt Hao Chen TANG /Zhaoxuan YANG ( Chn) 5-7, 6-2 , 10-3
Xinyun HAN (Chn) / Riko SAWAYANAGI 9 (Jpn) [1] Estelle Cascino(Fra) / Katharina Lehnert( Phi) W/O
Ya-Hsuan Lee(Tpe) / Varatchaya Wongteanchai ( Tha) [3]- Nidhi Chilumula / Prarthana G. Thombare( Ind) 7-6(6) 7-6(5)
Kai-Lin ZHANG / Yukun Zhang (Chn) bt Tadeja Majeric ( Slo)/ Conny Perrin ( Sui) [4] 6-4,6-0