TENNIS

The champion of the final event Sahaja Yamalapalli has been seeded seventh within the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event to be performed on the Ganesh Naik Sports Complex, Navi Mumbai from Tuesday.

The participant whom Sahaja had crushed within the closing in Solapur, Ekaterina Makarova has been seeded No.1, as a few of the higher ranked gamers withdrew.

The Asian Games combined doubles gold medalist Rutuja Bhosale is the opposite Indian to be seeded, fifth behind Moyuka Uchijima, Justina Mikulskyte and Sapfo Sakellaridi.

While it’s a sturdy subject, and a few of the main Indian gamers like Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi are lacking owing to their current marriage, it ought to 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 to date.

Shrivalli Bhamidipaty had received 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 properly to make the principle draw by a tricky qualifying occasion, that includes three rounds.

It ought to be attention-grabbing to see who rises to the problem this week and breaks the voodoo.

– Kamesh Srinivasan