Wildcard Radhika Tulpule enters final qualifying round

Pune, Nov 11 (UNI) The Poona Club wild card entrant Radhika Tulpule-Kanitkar came back from a two year international tournament break to post a 6-3, 6-4 win over Shalini Sahoo and enter the final round of the qualifying 25,000 dollar International Women's Tennis tournament which got under way here today.

Elzaveta Tochiovskava of Russia, Maria Caciotti of Italy, Aby Hedges of Australia, upcoming junior Kelsey Sundaram of USA, alongwith Indian juniors Paija Maloo, Madura Ranghnathan also made it to the final qualifying round.

It was a bad day for the Borwornchokchai sisters - Sasarin and Sasirin - as they were put out of the event by Ashita Easwarmurthi and Sandri Gangothri. It also was a bad day for Poona club wildcard players Ronak Shah and Sayali Bhilare who were outhit by Liza Perreira and Madhura Ranghnathan.

Following are the results (First round Qualifying) Elizaveta Tochilovskaya (Russia) bt Natalie Handler (Israel) 6-1,6-0 Martina Caciotti (Italy) bt Anupama Rajul (India) 6-1, 6-0 Radhika Tulpule (India) bt Shalini Sahoo (India) 6-3,6-1 Kelsey Sundaram (USA) bt Urmila Ram (India) 6-4, 6-4 Vishika Chhetri (India) bt Sarah Stallard (GBR) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 Abby Hedges (Aus) bt Arthi Venkatraman (India) 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) Sagarika Phadke (India) bt Neha Rana (India) 6-3, 6-2 Liza Pereira (India) bt Ronak Shah (India) 6-1, 6-0 Ashmitha Easwarmurthi (India) bt Sasirin Borwornchokchai (Thailand) 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) Parija Maloo (India) bt Anushri Thammanna (India) 6-3,6-0 Chirashanthi Rajur (India) bt Varsha Shivshankar (India) 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 Kumari Sweta Solanki (India) bt Nupur Kaul (India) 6-3,6-2 Asha Nandkumar (India) bt Kamalpreet Bhullar (India) 6-4,6-2 Gangorthri Sandri (India) bt Sasarin Borwornchokchai (Thailand) 6-0,6-2 Poojashree Venkatesha (India) bt Akshitha Basavaraju (India) 6-2,6-0 Madura Ranganathan (India) bt Sayali Bhilare (India) 6-2, 6-0 UNI IS KU PDS RS2117