Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic of Germany in motion towards Punnin Kovapitukted within the ITF girls’s tennis match in Gurugram on Wednesday.
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Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic of Germany knocked out second seed and final 12 months’s champion Punnin Kovapitukted of Thailand 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 within the first spherical of the $15,000 ITF girls’s tennis match on the Tennis Project, Baliawas, on Wednesday.
In a fierce baseline battle, the 30-year-old Sarah had the higher attain and punch to counter the foot pace of the gutsy Punnin. While Sarah transformed 5 of eight break factors, the 20-year-old Punnin fell brief, profitable 4 of six breakpoints. It was Punnin who gained extra factors, 85 to 83, however Sarah gained the factors that mattered.
In the pre-quarterfinals, Sarah will face qualifier Julia Lovqvist of Sweden.
Champion of the final match, Zeel Desai warmed up with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over qualifier Liu Min of China. She will play one other qualifier Pooja Ingale within the second spherical.
Sandeepti Singh Rao, the star of the final match in Jhajjar, who certified and reached the ultimate, arrange a repeat conflict with fifth seed Tamara Curovic of Serbia within the second spherical.
Akanksha Nitture went down preventing in three units to Fanny Ostlund of Sweden.
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty beat qualifier Sai Samhitha to arrange a second spherical towards third seed Saki Imamura of Japan.
The outcomes (first spherical):
Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) bt Sachi Sharma 6-1, 6-1; Weronika Baszak (Pol) bt Shruti Gupta 6-1, 6-0; Pooja Ingale bt Vanshika Choudhary 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; Zeel Desai bt Liu Min (Chn) 6-0, 6-2; Saki Imamura (Jpn) bt Viktoria Veleva (Bul) 3-6, 6-0, 6-1; Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Sai Samhitha 6-3, 6-3; Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Ishwari Matere 6-0, 7-5; Tamara Curovic (Srb) bt Suhani Gaur 6-0, 6-1; Antonia Schmidt (Ger) bt Sevil Yuldasheva (Uzb) 6-2, 6-2; Marie Mettraux (Sui) bt Avishka Gupta 6-3, 6-2; Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Mihika Yadav 7-6(2), 6-0; Emily Welker (Ger) bt Yubrani Banerjee 6-1, 6-2; Fanny Ostlund (Swe) bt Akanksha Nitture 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Julia lovqvist (Swe) bt Riya Uboveja 6-2, 6-1; Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic (Ger) bt Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
