Sowjanya Bavisetti in doubles semi-final in Spain

by sportswire4u.blogspot.com

CHANDIGARH, OCT 30

India’s Sowjanya Bavisetti and her Chinese partner Ai Wen Zhu, seeded second, entered the doubles semi-final of the $ 10,000 Women Tennis Circuit at the Club Tennis Benicarlo in Spain today. They defeated Spanish duo of Natalia Garcia Molina and Ana Royo Marco in straight sets 6-1, 6-1.

However, Sowjanya Bavisetti made her exit from the singles competition as she retired after trailing 0-4 in the second set after losing the first set at 0-6 to Andrea Lazaro Garcia of Spain in the first round match.

SHWETA RANA AND ARANTXA WIN: In the $ 10,000 Women Tennis Tournament at Sharm El Sheikh  in Egypt, fifth seeded Shweta Rana and Arantxa Andrady, both Indians, won their first round matches. Shweta Rana disposed of the challenge another Indian Tanisha Rohira in straight sets 6-0, 6-0. Arantxa Andrady’s opponent Anke Poncelet (Belgium) retired after trailing 2-5 in the first set.

In other matches in which Indians featured, Caroline Daxhelet (Bel)  defeated   Ashmitha Easwaramurthi (Ind) 6-4 6-2; Russian Tanya Samodelok ousted  Manya Nagpal  7-6(8) 6-2  and

third seed  Serbian  Natalija Kostic outplayed Vishesh Vishnu 6-1, 6-1.

In doubles first round matches,Ksenia Dmitrieva (Rus) and  Paulina Lewandowska (Pol)  beat   Manya Nagpal (Ind) and Tanisha Rohira (Ind)  6-2 2-6 [11-9]; Alice Bacquie (Fra) and Tessa Breve (Ned) snuffed out the challenge of   Ashmitha Easwaramurthi (Ind) and Yuliya Hnateyko (Uk) 6-7(6) 6-4 [10-3] and Vishesh Vishnu (Ind) and Janneke Wikkerink (Ned)  got walkover    from Louise Brunskog (Swe) and Linda Dubska (Cze). 

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