Third seed Ankita Raina warmed up for the more durable challenges forward by beating Ya-Hsuan Lee 6-1, 7-6(7) within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF ladies’s match on the Indore Tennis Club on Tuesday.
From 5-2 within the second set, Ankita misplaced her method briefly to path 5-6. In the eventual tie-break, she slipped from being 6-2 to 6-7, earlier than saving the set level and closing out the match by profitable the subsequent three factors.
Ankita will subsequent face the winner of the match between two qualifiers, Michika Ozeki and Ekaterina Yashina.
Another wild card entrant, Riya Bhatia was crushed 6-3, 6-2 by sixth seed Sohyun Park of Korea.
In doubles pre-quarterfinals, Zeel Desai and Sahaja Yamalapalli beat third seeds Polina Iatcenko and Ekaterina Yashina in straight units. Zeel and Sahaja will face one another within the singles first spherical on Wednesday.
The outcomes:
Singles (first spherical): Yasmine Mansouri (Fra) bt Pehal Kharadkar 6-2, 6-0; Justina Mikulskyte (Ltu) bt Dayeon Back (Kor) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; Ankita Raina bt Ya-Hsuan Lee (Tpe) 6-1, 7-6(7); Sohyun Park (Kor) bt Riya Bhatia 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Diva Bhatia & Kashish Bhatia 6-1, 6-1; Zeel Desai & Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Polina Iatcenko & Ekaterina Yashina 6-4, 6-2; Mei Hasegawa (Jpn) & Saumya Vig bt Humera Baharmus & Pooja Ingale 6-1, 4-6, [10-5]; Thasaporn Naklo & Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Tha) bt Ayumi Koshishi (Jpn) & Anastasia Zolotareva 4-6, 6-0, [10-8].
