Solapur, December 10: Second seeded Sahaja Yamlapalli , Vaishnavi Adkar were the two Indian players to make it to the second round of the singles at the Oasis Solapur Open MSLTA – SDLTA $ 25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament which is being organised by Solapur District Lawn Tennis Association(SDLTA) in association with MSLTA and played at MSLTA Tennis Center, Solapur.
Sahaja Yamalapalli winner of the last edition here proved too strong for qualifying Ishwari Matere handing her a double bagel to win 6-0, 6-0; Vaishnavi Adkar outplayed wild card Madhurima Sawant 6-0, 6-1; to enter the round of sixteen.
Among other Indians in action Thailand’s Bunyawi Thamchaiwat rallied past Riya Bhatia 6-0, 6-3 , third seeded Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah of France was given tough fight in the first set by Pooja Ingale finally winning 7-5, 6-2;
In the doubles Indian pair of Smriti Bhasin and Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi upset the top seeded pair of. Valentini Grammatikopoulou of Greece and Russian Ekaterina Yashina 6-4, 6-2 to enter the quarterfinal
Results: Main Draw: First Round: Singles: Womens:
Vaishnavi Adkar (Ind) bt Madhurima Sawant (Ind) 6-0, 6-1;
Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Tha) bt Riya Bhatia (Ind) 6-0, 6-3;
Sahaja Yamalapalli (Ind) [2] bt Ishwari Matere (Ind)6-0, 6-0;
Thasaporn Naklo (Tha) bt Viktoria Morvayova (Svk)6-4, 6-1;
Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah (Fra) [3] bt Pooja Ingale (Ind)7-5, 6-2;
Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha) bt Bela Tamhankar (Ind)6-1, 6-1;
Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) [4] bt Paavanii Paathak (Ind)6-1, 6-3;
Doubles:
Smriti Bhasin (Ind) / Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi (Ind) bt Valentini Grammatikopoulou (Gre) / Ekaterina Yashina [1] 6-4, 6-2;
Viera Deeperm (Tha) / Madhurima Sawant (Ind) bt Sonal Patil (Ind) /Abhaya Vemuri (Ind) 6-1, 2-6, 10-8;
Ishwari Matere (Ind) / Yashaswini Panwar (Ind) bt Aakruti Sonkusare (Ind) / Sahira Singh (Ind) 7-6(7), 6-3;
Akanksha Dileep Nitture (Ind) / Soha Sadiq (Ind) bt Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) / Viktoria Morvayova (Svk) 6-0, 0-6, 10-7;
Zuzanna Pawlikowska (Pol) [2] /Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah (Fra) bt Maria Mikhailova / Sofiia Nagornaia (Isr) 6-3, 6-2;