Shrivalli Bhamidipaty overcame Punnin Kovapitukted of Thailand 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the pre-quarterfinals of the W25 Solapur 10A ($25,000 ITF) women’s tennis tournament at the District Sports Complex on Thursday.
It was the third victory in eight meetings for Shrivalli over the 21-year-old Thai, who has been doing well in the tournaments in India.
The 23-year-old Shrivalli will play third seed Tiantsoa Rajaonah of France in the quarterfinals. The French was let off the hook by Akanksha NItture, who missed a match point in the third set tie-break, after having survived five match points on her serve in the tenth game.
Vaishnavi Adkar also played a good match against eighth seed Diana Marcinkevica of Latvia, but went down in a tough three setter when the latter served smart in the end to close out the match.
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Second seed Sahaja Yamalapalli dropped one game to qualifier Laalitya Kalluri in setting up a quarterfinal against Ekaterina Yashina. Sahaja had blanked another qualifier Ishwari Matere in the first round.
Sahaja and Vaishnavi combined to oust the second seeds in the doubles quarterfinals, 11-9 in the super tie-break.
The results:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Eva Garukusha bt Thasaporn Naklo (Tha) 6-3, 6-3; Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Tha) bt Valentini Garmmatikopoulou (Gre) 6-4, 6-2; Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) bt Ekaterina Kazionova 6-4, 7-5; Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) bt Vaishnavi Adkar 7-5, 3-6, 7-5; Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; Tiantsoa Rajaonah (Fra) bt Akanksha NItture 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(7); Ekaterina Yashina bt Humera Baharmus 6-2, 6-1; Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Laalitya Kalluri 6-1, 6-0.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Viera Deeperm (Tha) & Madhurima Sawant bt Smriti Bhasin & Sravya Shivani 3-6, 7-6(5), [10-7]; Akanksha Nitture & Soha Sadiq bt Humera Baharmus & Pooja Ingale 6-4, 4-6, [13-11]; Thasaporn Naklo & Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Tha) bt Ishwari Matere & Yashaswinii Panwar 6-1, 6-4; Vaishnavi Adkar & Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Zuzanna Pawlikowska (Pol) & Tiantsoa Rajaonah (Fra) 6-4, 3-6, [11-9].
