India’s singles challenge came to an end at the $25,000 ITF event in Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday with all four Indians going down in the second round, after running into seeded players.
Meanwhile, the all-Indian doubles pair of Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi beat Joanna Garland and Lee Hua-chen 6-3,6-3 to reach the quarter-final at the WTA $125K event in Taipei.
Both Prerna Bhambri and Zeel Desai stretched their matches to three setters. Bhambri lost to second seed Nastja Kolar of Slovania 6-4 5-7 0-6 while Desai was beaten by fourth seed Tereza Mihaalikova of Slovakia 7-6 2-6 6-2.
Top seed Hiroko Kuwata of Japan defeated local Sowjanya Bavisetti of India in straight sets 6-1 6-4 while third seed Natalija Kostic of Serbia beat Sai Samhitha Chamarthi 6-3 6-1.
India still has a few players in contention in doubles in Muzaffarnagar. Here are the results:
- Natalija Kostic and Tereza Mihalikova [1] beat Prerna Bhambri and Rishika Sunkara 6-2, 6-4
- Aleksandrina Naydenova and Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic beat Jennifer Luikham and Saumya Vig 6-1, 6-1
- Nidhi Chilumula and Ashmitha Easwaramurthi beat Leera Raju and Sai Dedeepya Yeddula 6-0, 6-1
- Zeel Desai and Natalia Siedliska beat Deeksha Manju Prasad and Soha Sadiq 6-4, 6-0
- Kyoka Okamura and Michika Ozek [4] beat Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi and Snehal Mane 6-1, 5-7, [10-6]
- Anna Makhorkina and Natasha Palha beat Avika Sagwal and Aayushi Tanwar 6-1, 6-0
