Pune, Nov 18: India’s Nirupama Sanjeev, Poojashree Venkatesha, Sanaa Bhambri and lucky loser Sheetal Goutham crashed out of the singles event of the $50,000 NECC-ITF Women’s Tennis championships here on Wednesday.
Uzbek wild card Sabina Sharipova, 15, upset second seeded Slovak Masa Zec Peskiric 6-3, 6-2 to enter the quarter-finals. In the second round, top seed and 111 ranked Tamarine Tanasugarn stopped Nirupama 6-2,6-3 in 91 minutes, while third seeded Bojana Jovanovski outplayed Poojashree Venkatesha 6-1, 6-0. Sanaa saved two match points to claim the second set but faltered in the third set to go down fighting against eighth seeded Anastasia Vasylyyeva, from Ukraine 6-1, 5-7, 7-5 in 2 hours 13 minutes. Qualifier Chen Astrogo of Israel ousted the run of lucky looser Sheetal 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
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