Seeded players cruise into quarter-finals

FUTURES TENNIS WEEK-3

The top seed Gozal Ainitdinova of Kazakhstan and the bottom seed Pranjala Yadlapalli of India won their respective second-round matches of the Astoria Women’s Futures Week-3 Tennis Tournament which continued at the SLTA Courts in Green Path, Colombo yesterday.

However, fifth seed Rutuja Bhosale of India bowed out of contention as she was defeated by compatriot Aldila Sutjiadi.

Results (Singles 2nd round): Gozal Ainitdinova (Kazakhstan) beat Isabelle Boulais (Canada) 6/2, 6/1. Jennifer Lukham (India) beat Sabastiani Leon (Mexico) 6/4, 6/2. Yexin Ma (China) beat Rishika Sunkara (India) 6/4, 6/0. Aldila Sutjiadi (Indonesia) beat Rutuja Bhosale (India) 6/3, 6/2. Tamara Curovic (Serbia) beat Dan Ni Wang (China) 6/3, 6/2. Josephine Boualem (France) beat Louise Lampla (France) 6/3, 6/3. Zeel Desai (India) beat Samhitha Chamarthi (India) 6/0, 6/1. Pranjala Yadlapalli (India) beat Alice Gillan (Great Britain) 7/6 (4), 6/0.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Gozal Ainitdinova (Kazakhstan)/ Tamara Curovic (Serbia) beat Samhitha Chamarthi/ Aldila Sutjiadi (Indonesia) 6/3, 6/3. Rutuja Bhosale/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (India) beat Priyanka Rodricks/ Gabriela Zarnoeanu (ROU) 6/0, 6/0. Prema Bhambri/nidhi Chilumula (India) beat Jiahuan He/ Dan Ni Wang (China) 6/3, 6/3. Natasha Palha/rishika Sunkara (India) beat Pe-ju Chen (Taipei)/saumya Vig (India) 6/3, 6/4.

Doubles (semi-final): Natasha Palha/rishika Sunkara (India) received walk over from Prema Bhambri/nidhi Chilumula (India).