Week 49 - ITF ($25K) - Pune, India - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 49 - ITF ($25K) - Pune, India - Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Nice to see Anna adventuring overseas - i suspect the win money and top up funds from Loughborough will have helped fund this.

Qualifying draw looks OK with Balu potentially in the final qualifier who Eden took a set off a couple of weeks ago.

Main draw doesn't look too strong(bar the top 2), so would hope all three girls could get decent points.

TomTraubert · Futures level

anna won 2&0 :)

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: (q6) Anna Smith WR 571 beat Amrita Mukherjee (IND) UNR by 2 & 0

FQR: (q6) Anna Smith WR 571 v (q12) Sharmada Balu (IND) WR 817 (CH 674 in 2011)

TomTraubert · Futures level

anna lost 6-2 2-6 1-6
seems like quite a turn around after set 1 there :(

paulisi · Tennis legend

disappointing. I was hoping Anna would kick on after Loughborough.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: WINDLEY, Jade (GBR) 7 307 v INOUE, Miyabi (JPN) 389 (CH=328 July 2013)
R1: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 431 v BHAMBRI, Prerna (IND) WC 643 (0-1 India 2012 CH=509 April 2013)

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: Jocelyn Rae & Anna Smith v (WC) Prerna Bhambri & Nidhi Chilumula (IND/IND) - winner probably to face #1 seeds
R1: (3) Ksenia Palkina (KGZ) & Jade Windley v Diana Bogoliy & Kamila Kerimbayeva (UKR/KAZ)
R1: Nungnadda Wannasuk & (THA) & Emily Webley-Smith v (WC) Ankita Raina & Prarthana G. Thombare (IND/IND) - winner probably to face #2 seeds

indiana · Tennis legend

Joss back in India, the country where she won her Commonwealth Games mixed doubles gold medal with Colin Fleming in 2010, playing quite beautifully at times.

She's not had her troubles to seek since and it has been really good to see her back in action in recent months. Hope she can really push on again in 2014 ( though no Commonwealth Games tennis in Glasgow ).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

R1: Jocelyn Rae & Anna Smith def. (WC) Prerna Bhambri & Nidhi Chilumula (IND/IND) 6-0 6-2

paulisi · Tennis legend

Good result.
Nice to see Jocelyn having a go at an overseas tournament, but it cannot be easy for her financially, especially when she is not playing singles.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good to see Joss back. Hopefully she will be riding high in doubles once again

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jade in a tight match - 4-4 first set.

steven · Tennis legend

Sadly, Emily lost to Bhambri again, this time 2 & 3

Jade's match is still stuck at 4-4 in the 1st set.

steven · Tennis legend

Emily: "Mind was willing, body was not."

With both Anna and Emily having gone out a round too early (from a ranking point of view) to local girls, I imagine there may be a bit of an acclimatisation issue here.