PUNE: Dhruti Venugopal of India rallied from a set down to beat 14th seeded Uzbek Albina Khabibulina and moved into the second qualifying round of the $25,000 NECC-ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament at Deccan Gymkhana on Saturday.
Dhruthi scored an impressive 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over the Uzbekistani player.
India’s Jennifer Luikham sweat it out hard before going down aginst top seeded Ana Veselinovic 4-6, 6-3, 5-7.
RESULTS: (Qualifying Round 1)
13-Sarah Beth Grey (Gbr) bt Britt Geukens (Bel) 6-3, 6-0; 17-Ellen Allgurin (Swe) bt Erin Routliffe (Nzl) 7-5, 6-2; 1-Ana Veselinovic (Mne) bt Jennifer Luikham (Ind) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; 6-Kaja Juvan (Slo) bt Ekaterina Vishnevskaya (Rus) 7-6 (7-0), 6-3; 8-Emily Webley-Smith (Gbr) bt Humera Begum Shaik (Ind) 6-3, 6-0; Kaylah Mcphee (Aus) bt 9-Nudnida Luangnam (Tha) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; 5-Nagi Hanatani (Jpn) bt Weronika Jasmina Forys (Pol) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; Haruna Arakawa (Jpn) bt 7-Ekaterina Yashina 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Elena Bogdan (Rou) bt 10-Cristina Ene (Rou) 6-3, 6-4; 16-Zeel Desai (Ind) bt Snehal Mane (Ind) 6-3, 6-3; 11-Fatma Al Nabhani (Oma) bt Neha Ghare (Ind) 6-1, 6-1; 3-Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov (Esp) bt Aastha Dargude (Ind) 6-2, 6-0; 15-Ksenia Palkina (Kgz) bt Ramya Natarajan (Ind) 6-3, 6-3; Ho Ching Wu (Hkg) bt 12-Ching-Wen Hsu (Tpe) 6-1, 2-1 (retd); Dhruthi Venugopal (Ind) bt 14-Albina Khabibulina (UZb) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; 2-Samantha Murray (Gbr) bt Varunya Wongteanchai (Tha) 6-4, 6-3.
