Shrivalli Bhamidipaty blanks fifth seed Justina Mikulskyte
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty blasted her way past the fifth seed Justina Mikulskyte of Lithuania 60, 60 in 49 minutes in the $25,000 ITF women’s tennis quarterfinals at the Indore Tennis Club on Friday.
Quite at home on the quick courts where she had trained in the past with coach Sajid Lodi, the 22yearold Shrivalli smashed her way past Justina, who had won the title in Gurugram a fortnight earlier.
Shrivalli started hesitantly with two double faults in the first game, but rarely put a foot wrong thereafter. She conceded only 19 points in all to the 28yearold Justina, ranked 249 in the world.
Polina pips Ankita
In the semifinals, Shrivalli will play Polina Iatcenko who pipped third seed Ankita Raina in a tough encounter.
Ankita fought back from being down 35 and saved two match points before the Russian nosed ahead in the eventual tiebreak for a 63, 76(4) victory.
The other semifinal will
on Friday.
Shrivalli during her quick fire win over Justina in Indore be between Dalila Jakupovic and Mananchaya Sawangkaew.
Shrivalli later made the doubles final with Vaidehi Chaudhari, beating the other Indian pair of Sahaja Yamalapalli and Zeel Desai in an entertaining contest.
The Indian pair will face YaHsuan Lee and Sohyun Park, who recovered from a slow start to outplay second seeds Jacqueline Cabaj Awad and Diana Mar
cinkevica 101 in the super tiebreak.
The results: Quarterfinals: Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Justina Mikulskyte 6-0, 6-0; Polina Iatcenko bt Ankita Raina 6-3, 7-6(4); Mananchaya Sawangkaew bt Jacqueline Cabaj Awad 6-1, 6-2; Dalila Jakupovic bt Thasaporn Naklo 6-0, 6-0. Doubles: Semifinals: Shrivalli & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Zeel Desai & Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-1, 7-6(7); Ya-Hsuan Lee & Sohyun Park bt Jacqueline & Diana Marcinkevica 4-6, 6-0, [10-1].