Korean Dayeon Again beat fifth seed Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-4, 6-1 within the quarterfinals of the Maha Urja $25,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event on the MSLTA Academy on Friday.
Within the semifinals, Again will play second seed Dalila Jakupovic who overcame a troublesome begin to beat Miriana Tona of Italy in three units.
The fantastic run of one other Korean, Yeonwoo Ku continued, because the wiry 20-year-old outplayed Ekaterina Yashina for the lack of one sport. She is going to face Daria Kudashova within the semifinals.
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Ku in partnership with Justina Mikulskyte beat Shrivalli Bhamidipaty and Vaidehi Chaudhari 6-1, 2-6, [10-8] within the doubles semifinals. The Indian pair fought exhausting from being down 3-8 within the tremendous tie-break until 8-9 earlier than the scratch mixture of singles champion and runner-up of the final event in Gurugram, Justina and Ku closed it out.
The outcomes:
Singles (quarterfinals): Yeonwoo Ku (Kor) bt Ekaterina Yashina 6-1, 6-0; Daria Kudashova bt Rinon Okuwaki (Jpn) 6-4, 6-3; Dayeon Again (Kor) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-4, 6-1; Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) bt Miriana Tona (Ita) 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (semifinals): Irina Maria Bara (Rou) & Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) bt Yasmine Mansouri (Fra) & Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 7-5, 6-4; Yeonwoo Ku (Kor) & Justina Mikulskyte (Ltu) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari 6-1, 2-6, [10-8].