Rutuja Bhosale of India shocked second seeded Valentini Grammatikopoulou with a exceptional 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 victory within the singles opening spherical of the KPB Belief ITF Ladies’s Open on the KSLTA Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
The unseeded Bhosale misplaced the primary set however fought again impressively to beat her robust Greek opponent, a World No. 198, in an exhilarating three-setter to enter the Spherical-of-16.
The on-going $40k match is a part of the ITF Ladies’s World Tennis Tour and it’s hosted by the Karnataka State Garden Tennis Affiliation (KSLTA).
One other Indian Zeel Desai, who had received her second ITF ladies’s tour title final month, additionally made a vivid starting with a facile 6-3, 6-2 victory towards German qualifier Rebecca Sarah Sekulic. The 24-year-old Ahmedabad-born Desai got here into the match as a wild card entry.
High-rated Indian Ankita Raina additionally lived as much as the expectations and made a profitable begin to her marketing campaign defeating compatriot Vanshita Pathania 6-3, 6-0.
Earlier, 15-year-old tennis sensation Brenda Fruhvirtova of Czech Republic vindicated her high seeding within the occasion with a crushing 6-1, 6-0 win over Taipei’s Lee Ya-Hsuan. Fruhvirtova made her Grand Slam debut in Australia earlier this yr—turning into the fifth youngest qualifier to succeed in the Australian Open important draw.
In the meantime, Vaidehi Chaudhari, who had two wonderful outings within the qualifiers, couldn’t repeat the efficiency and went all the way down to sixth seeded Indonesian Madelyn Nugroho 2-6, 1-6.
Sahaja Yamalapalli, one other Indian wildcard entrant, additionally suffered a 6-7 (8), 3-6 defeat towards Lativa’s Diana Marcinkevica.