Zeel Desai has shown the top seed and top 250 ranked player the exit door after winning her R2 match at the Bowring Institute ITF Women’s Tour W25 Bengaluru, India. Zeel Desai (IND, 625) bt Nigina Abduraimova (UZB, 244) 6-4 6-4.

Zeel speaks to Deepthi Indukuri about her career best win today. She has been training with Alexander Waske Tennis-University. Zeel has won 2 singles ITF titles (W15 Monastir and W15 Jhajjar) and 2 doubles ITF titles (W15 Monastir and W15 Gurugram) this season.

Hi Zeel, so what happened today?

Hi, so I beat the first seed today, I’m so happy and yeah, she’s a 200 rank player. So I’m super proud of myself and looking forward for tomorrow’s match, tomorrow’s quarterfinal. I hope I do well and play semis.

Good luck. So how did the match go and what happened?

She was hitting the ball really hard, like on both the sides and I had to be really quick on the court. So I defended well as well as I was hitting the ball also hard. So I was playing aggressive also. So yeah, I served well as well. So yes.

Did it help to have your coach on court?

Yes, actually it was on point and I also followed it really well. So my coach is also so happy.