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India’s 3rd effect Vaishnavi Adkar headlined the opening time of the ITF W35 women’s tennis tourney successful Kalaburagi with a objective straight-sets triumph implicit Indian wildcard Chevika Reddy Sama connected March 3. The tourney with $30,000 successful prize wealth is portion of the ITF Women’s World Tennis Tour.
Adkar defeated chap Indian wildcard Chevika Reddy Sama 6-0, 6-3 successful the first-round singles match. She dominated the opening set, racing to a 4-0 pb and sealing it 6-0 with assertive baseline play and a flurry of winners. Though Sama attempted a comeback successful the 2nd acceptable and adjacent secured an aboriginal break, Adkar rapidly regained control, producing timely winners to adjacent retired the lucifer 6-3 and publication her spot successful the 2nd round.
Earlier, qualifier Laxmisiri Dandu enactment up a spirited combat against Japan’s seventh effect Michika Ozeki. Dandu stunned her higher-ranked hostile by taking the archetypal acceptable 6-4. However, Ozeki bounced backmost powerfully to assertion the adjacent 2 sets 6-1, 6-0 and beforehand to the adjacent round.
In different singles matches, Israel’s Maayan Laron overpowered India’s Amodini Naik (wildcard) 6-0, 6-1, portion Uzbekistan’s Milana Maslenkova edged Germany’s Anastasiya Kuparev successful a intimately fought contest. Sofia Suslova registered a hard-fought three-set triumph implicit Ekaterina Yashina, and Sofia Martianova defeated Indian qualifier Arunkumar Lakshmi Prabha successful consecutive sets. Thailand’s 2nd effect Anchisa Chanta progressed comfortably with a 6-2, 6-0 triumph implicit Great Britain’s Allegra Korpanec Davies.
The doubles contention besides commenced with competitory encounters. The Indo-Dutch top-seeded brace of Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty and Jasmijn Gimbrere precocious with a 6-4, 6-4 triumph implicit Thailand’s Anchisa Chanta and Thasaporn Naklo. The Indian duo of Akanksha Dileep Nitture and Soha Sadiq secured a thrilling triumph successful a ace tie-break against Allegra Korpanec Davies and Eva Marie Desvignes, prevailing 6-2, 5-7, [11-9]. Evgeniya Burdina and Sofia Martianova defeated Kashish Bhatia and Vanshita Pathania 6-3, 6-4.
With seeded players asserting their authorization and Indian contenders delivering determined performances, the tourney is acceptable for further excitement, with Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty, Ankita Raina and Zeel Desai scheduled to diagnostic successful upcoming singles matches.
Karnataka’s RDPR Minister Priyank Kharge plays a changeable aft flagging disconnected the ITF W35 women’s tennis tourney astatine the Chandrashekar Patil Stadium successful Kalaburagi connected March 3, 2026. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI
The tourney was flagged disconnected by Karnataka’s Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister and Kalaburagi territory In-charge Priyank Kharge successful the beingness of Medical Education Minister Dr. Sharan Prakash Patil and different dignitaries astatine the Chandrashekar Patil Stadium successful Kalaburagi.
Among those contiguous were MLCs Tippannappa Kamaknoor, Jagdev Guttedar and Sashil G. Namoshi, Deputy Commissioner Fouzia Taranum, Police Commissioner S.D. Sharanappa, Zilla Panchayat CEO Bhanwar Singh Meena, metropolis corp Commissioner Shinde Avinash Sanjeevan, and Superintendent of Police Aduru Srinivasalu.
