Wildcard Vaishnavi Adkar reeked off 12 games in a row to down Poland’s Olivier Berger to advance to the second round of singles at the$25000 Precision Solapur Open Womens ITF Tennis Tournament which is being organized by Solapur District Lawn Tennis Association(SDLTA) in association with MSLTA and played MSLTA Tennis Center, Solapur.
Pune based 18 year old Vaishnavi was down 2-4 in the second set before she took 12 games in a row to stun her Polish Opponent Berger , In the second set Berger got just 6 points in six games against the wildcard Vaishnavi won 7-5,6-0 to make it to the second round.
In another highly anticipated match between two Gujarat Players Vaidehi Chaudhari got better off Zeel Desai 6-1 , 6-2, and made the second round.
In other matches involving Indians Saki Imamura over came a first set challenge to oust wildcard Akanksha Nitture 7-5, 6-1, while Japanese girl Hiromi Abe stopped qualifier Soha Sadiq 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Results:
First Round Singles:
Saki Imamura (Jpn) bt Akanksha Nitture (Ind) 7-5, 6-1;
Weronika Baszak (Pol) bt Chelsea Fontenel (Sui) 6-3, 1-0 retd.
Vaidehi Chaudhari (Ind) [8] bt Zeel Desai (Ind) 6-1, 6-2;
Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) [3] bt Ekaterina Yashina 6-4, 7-6(6);
Hiromi Abe (Jpn) bt (Q)Soha Sadiq (Ind) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1;
(WC)Vaishnavi Adkar (Ind) bt Olivia Bergler (Pol) 7-5, 6-0
First Round Doubles:
Zeel Desai (Ind) / Pranjala Yadlapalli (Ind) bt Smriti Bhasin (Ind) / Pooja Ingale (Ind) 7-5, 6-4, 10-5;
Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (Ind) [2] /Vaidehi Chaudhari (Ind) bt Snehal Mane (Ind) / Akanksha Nitture (Ind)6-0, 6-1;
Ekaterina Kazionova / Ekaterina Yashina [3] bt Nainika Narender Reddy Bendram (Ind) / Aakruti Sonkusare (Ind)6-0, 6-3;
Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) / Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) [1] bt Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi (Ind) /Jennifer Luikham (Ind)7-6(5), 6-0;
Vaishnavi Adkar (Ind) / Sahaja Yamalapalli (Ind) bt Madhurima Sawant (Ind) /Bela Tamhankar (Ind) 6-2, 6-2;
Humera Baharmus (Ind) /Olivia Bergler (Pol) bt Alexandra Azarko / Saumya Vig (Ind) 6-2, 6-4
