Three Indians into second round of Pune ITF

Pune, Nov 14 (IANS India’s Shweta Kumari Solanki, Sonya Dayal and Tanvi Shah survived hiccups to move into the second round of the qualifiers in the $50,000 NECC-ITF Womens Tennis championships organised by the Deccan Gymkhana on their club courts.

In the first round of the qualifying, Shweta scraped past Treta Bhattacharyya 5-7, 6-4, 6-1, while Sonya survived a fighting Ankita Raina 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(3). Tanvi Shah scored a 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 win over Smriti Joon.

The results (1st round, Qualifying): Rishika Sunkara bt Nilaya Tarimela 6-2,6-2; Sagarika Phadke bt Prarthana Surve 6-1,6-2; Adnya Naik bt Parul Goswami 6-1,6-2; Chen Astrogo (ISR) bt Dipti Shrivastava 6-0,6-0; Gopika Kapoor bt Yulia Georgieva (RUS) 6-4,6-1; Sheethal Goutham bt Aishwarya Agarwal 6-3,6-2; Chanel Simmonds (RSA) bt Aishwarya Shrivastava 6-1,6-1; Christi Potgieter(RSA) bt Garima Vatwani 7-5,6-2; Shweta Rana bt Deepna Vazirani 6-3, 7-6(4); Sonal Phadke bt Sayali Bhilare 6-1,6-2; Shivika Burman bt Arantxa Andrady 6-2, 6-1; Shweta Kumari Solanki bt Treta Bhattacharyya 5-7,6-4,6-1; Sonya Dayal bt Ankita Raina 6-3,3-6,7-6(3); Tanvi Shah bt Smriti Joon 3-6,7-5,6-1; Tamara Curovic (SRB) bt Nupur Kaul 6-0 ,6-1.