Vaidehi , Vaishnavi go down fighting in opener at 22nd edition of NECC Deccan ITF 50K Women’s Tennis Tournament
Pune, January 23,2024: Wildcards Vaidehi Chaudari , Vaishnavi Adkar went down fighting in the opening round at the 22nd edition of NECC Deccan ITF 50K Women’s Tennis Tournament being organized by Deccan Gymkhana and sponsored by National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC) under the auspices of the ITF, AITA and MSLTA and played at the Deccan Gymkhana Tennis Courts
In the first round eighth seeded ranked 240 Tatiana Prozorova of Russia came back from the loss of the first set to down wildcard Vaidehi Chaudhari ranked 501 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 in a 2 hour 40 minute battle
151 ranked and second seed Anastasia Tikhonova was tested by local girl and wildcard Vaishnavi Adkar before winning 6-3, 7-6(7) in a 1 hour 48 minute match , Adkar stroked well on both flanks and led 5-4 and had a couple of set points , she also had set points in the tiebreaker but couldn’t hold on and went down 7-9 in the tiebreaker.
In a match involving third wildcard and local girl Madhurima Sawant Dutch player Anouk Koevermans out powered Madhurima 6-2, 6-1 .
Third seeded Indian pair of Rutuja Bhosale and Ankita Raina made it to the quarterfinal in the doubles event edging out Anouk Koevermans and Russian Ekaterina Yashina 6-4,4-6,10-5
The tournament was earlier inaugurated by MLA Siddharth Shirole, Mr.BSR Shastry, GM of NECC, Mr.Vishwas Lokare, VP of MSLTA, Mr.Sunder Iyer, Hon Secretary of MSLTA, Former India No 1 Tennis Player and former Fed Cupper Radhika Tulpule-Kanitkar. Mr.Girish Inamdar, General Secretary of Deccan Gymkhana, Mr.Mihir Kelkar, Finance Secretary of Deccan Gymkhana, Mr.Ashwin Girme, Tennis Secretary of Deccan Gymkhana, ITF Supervisor Sheetal Iyer were present on the occasion.
Results: First Round: Main Draw:
Moyuka Uchijima (Jpn) [3] bt Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3;
Anastasia Tikhonova [2] bt Vaishnavi Adkar (Ind)6-3, 7-6(7);
Anouk Koevermans (Ned) bt Madhurima Sawant (Ind)6-2, 6-1;
Tina Nadine Smith (Aus) bt Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha)6-3, 6-0;
Tatiana Prozorova [8] bt Vaidehi Chaudhari (Ind)1-6, 7-5, 6-4;
Anca Alexia Todoni (Rou) bt Camilla Rosatello (Ita)7-6(0), 6-1;
Doubles: First Round:
Saki Imamura (Jpn) /Naho Sato (Jpn) bt Rina Saigo (Jpn) /Yukina Saigo (Jpn)6-3, 6-2;
Jessie Aney (Usa) /Lena Papadakis (Ger) bt Snehal Mane (Ind) /Soha Sadiq (Ind)6-2, 6-1;
Naiktha Bains (Gbr) /Fanni Stollar (Hun) [1] bt Pooja Ingale (Ind) /Akanksha Dileep Nitture (Ind)6-2, 6-3;
Rutuja Bhosale (Ind) /Ankita Raina (Ind) [3]Vs.Anouk Koevermans (Ned) /Ekaterina Yashina 6-4,4-6,10-5
Anastasia Kulikova (Fin) /Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) bt Vaishnavi Adkar (Ind)/Sahaja Yamalapalli (Ind) 3-6,6-4,10-6
Alexandra Eala (Phi) [4] /Darja Semenistaja (Lat) bt Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) /Eri Shimizu (Jpn)6-7(7), 6-1, 10-7
