TENNIS
The champion of the final event Sahaja Yamalapalli has been seeded seventh within the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event to be performed on the Ganesh Naik Sports activities Complicated, Navi Mumbai from Tuesday.
The participant whom Sahaja had crushed within the last in Solapur, Ekaterina Makarova has been seeded No.1, as among the higher ranked gamers withdrew.
The Asian Video games combined doubles gold medalist Rutuja Bhosale is the opposite Indian to be seeded, fifth behind Moyuka Uchijima, Justina Mikulskyte and Sapfo Sakellaridi.
Whereas it’s a sturdy area, and among the main Indian gamers like Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi are lacking owing to their current marriage, it must be some added motivation for the Indian gamers to be at their aggressive finest, because the occasion has not witnessed an Indian singles or doubles champion in ten editions up to now.
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty had gained the event in Bengaluru earlier than Sahaja adopted up final week in Solapur. The likes of Vaidehi Chaudhari and Zeel Desai are additionally succesful as they’ve been exhibiting within the circuit.
Lakshmi Prabha and Humera Baharmus did effectively to make the principle draw by a troublesome qualifying occasion, that includes three rounds.
It must be fascinating to see who rises to the problem this week and breaks the voodoo.
Seedings
1. Ekaterina Makarova, 2. Moyuka Uchijima (Jpn), 3. Justina Mikulskyte (Ltu), 4. Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre), 5. Rutuja Bhosale, 6. Diana Marcinkevica (Lat), 7. Sahaja Yamalapalli, 8. Ksenia Zaytseva.
– Kamesh Srinivasan