ITF Girls’s Bengaluru Open: Sara Bejlek ends Sahaja Yamalapalli’s spectacular run

Eighth seed Sara Bejlek halted Sahaja Yamalapalli’s run within the quarterfinals of the $100,000 KPB Belief Girls’s Open tennis event on the KSLTA courts right here on Thursday.

Sahaja (world no. 315), who had defeated two larger ranked opponents in her earlier rounds, discovered her match in Bejlek (world no. 155). The 18-year-old Czech participant produced winners on the massive factors and displayed high quality courtroom protection.

Sahaja stayed within the hunt along with her aggressive recreation plan, however a slew of unforced errors proved to be her undoing. It was, however, a superb week for the 24-year-old Indian, who will subsequent compete within the $70,000 ITF event at Pune.

Within the semifinal, Bejlek will tackle Leolia Jeanjean, who scored a come-from-behind 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 win over second-seed Rebecca Marino of Canada.

A fiery Jeanjean – very snug exhibiting a spread of feelings on the courtroom – willed herself into the competition.

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Standing tall at six toes, Marino acquired her serves to kick as much as Jeanjean’s shoulder, however the Frenchwoman did nicely to get her returns deep.

Within the different last-four, top-seed Tatjana Maria of Germany will face Czech Republic’s Linda Fruhvirtova.

Maria made essentially the most of a match-up benefit to close down Thailand’s Lanlana Tararudee 6-2, 6-2. With expertly positioned slices to all corners of the courtroom, Maria pressured Tararudee to desert her flat, onerous groundstrokes. Taken fully out of her consolation zone, the 20-year-old Thailand participant reduce a annoyed determine.

Fruhvirtova held her nerve to defeat Slovenia’s Dalila Jakupovic 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. The outcomes: