The final week of the Bangladesh trilogy includes Amy Askew, hopefully recovered from whatever caused her withdrawal last week. Eden Silva again was granted a wildcard, which I would have thought she would have been better off refusing to gain useful experience of battling to qualify.
Boys R1 (L64)
Ashwin Kuppusamy (GBR) d. (WC) Yacine Saadi (FRA) 1-1 rtd James Ireland (GBR) d. (Q) Ajay Yadav (IND) 1-6 7-5 6-3
R2
Ashwin Kuppusamy (GBR) v (14) Rishabdev Raman (IND) (5) Chieh-Fu Wang (TPE) v James Ireland (GBR)
Girls R1 (L64)
(Q) Roisin Mullins (GBR) d. Smriti Joon (IND) 6-1 7-6 (4) (Q) Rimpledeep Kaur Batth (IND) d. (WC) Eden Silva (GBR) 4-6 6-1 6-4 Adnya Naik (IND) d. Sian Bayliss (GBR) 5-7 6-0 6-1 (8) Amy Askew (GBR) BYE Kanika Vaidya (IND) d. (Q) Beth Askew (GBR) 6-2 6-4
R2
(Q) Roisin Mullins (GBR) v (15) Anna Clarice Patrimonio (PHI) (8) Amy Askew (GBR) v (LL) Kotchamon Kongkerd (THA)
Just as in the previous two tournaments it is soon down to Amy in singles. Unfortunately she is in a tough section of the draw. Her next opponent beat her en route to the title 2 weeks ago
Boys R2
(14) Rishabdev Raman (IND) d. Ashwin Kuppusamy (GBR) 6-2 6-4 (5) Chieh-Fu Wang (TPE) d. James Ireland (GBR) 7-6(2) 6-2
Girls R2
(15) Anna Clarice Patrimonio (PHI) d. (Q) Roisin Mullins (GBR) 7-6(4) 6-3 (8) Amy Askew (GBR) d. (LL) Kotchamon Kongkerd (THA) 6-0 6-3
No revenge for Amy, who therefore misses out on the chance of a crack at Shazza mk 2. Deng has to play Sabina Sharipova, an Uzbek who is Laura's closest rival in the WTA rankings among 1994 girls (ranked 408 after a 50K semi). I imagine she is playing here because travelling further afield more often is prohibitively expensive/unpractical. Unsurprisingly she has strolled through last week and this week's tournament so far.
R3
(11) Meng Ning Deng (CHN) d. (8) Amy Askew (GBR) 6-4 6-3
