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It was a sombre time for the Indian contingent astatine the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) courts connected Tuesday, arsenic each 4 location players bowed retired successful the round-of-32 successful the L&T Mumbai Open 125K series.
Sahaja Yamalapalli, Shrivalli Bhamidipaty, Vaishnavi Adkar and Maaya Rajeshwaran fell woefully short, leaving the fistful of faithful to rue the day’s play.
Vaishnavi emerged arsenic the astir competitory of the quartet, engaging Austria’s Lilli Tagger successful prolonged baseline rallies and threading precise groundstrokes disconnected some wings. The 21-year-old Indian showcased extent and consistency, redirecting gait and attempting to dictate rallies from the backmost of the court.
Yet, Tagger seized power astatine pivotal moments, combining superior tribunal sum with well-timed net-rushing to decorativeness points and pressuring Vaishnavi into errors.
Close affair
The opening acceptable remained choky until the closing stages, erstwhile Tagger opened up the tribunal with acute cross-court angles, drafting errors from Vaishnavi and securing a decisive precocious interruption to instrumentality it 7-5.
In the second, she amplified her aggression, firing punishing aces down the T, mixing crisp forehand volleys with skidding backhand slices, and dictating the rallies from commencement to finish, earlier closing retired the lucifer with a 6–4 acceptable win.
Later successful the day, past year’s semifinalist Maaya Rajeshwaran went down 3-6, 2-6 to past season’s quarterfinalist, Lanlana Tararudee.
The Thai imposed herself aboriginal with extent from the baseline, utilizing dense top-spin forehands, crisp returns and precise changeable placement to repeatedly interruption Maaya’s serve, leaving the Indian with small accidental to equine a comeback.
Other results: Darja Semenistaja (Lat) bt Diletta Cherubini (Ita) 6-3, 6-1; Yasmine Kabbaj (Mar) bt Peangtarn Pipuech (Tha) 6-3, 6-3; Eri Shimizu (Jpn) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli (Ind) 7-5, 6-2; Sohyun Park (Kor) bt Mingge Xu (GBr) 6-1, retd.; Fangran Tian (Chn) bt Rina Saigo (Jpn) 6-0, 6-3; Kristiana Sidorova bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty (Ind) 6-1, 6-3; Tatiana Prozorova bt Priska Nugroho (Ina) 6-2, 6-1; Hanne Vandewinkel (Bel) bt Zuzanna Pawlikowska (Pol) 6-3, 6-3.
