ITF women’s tennis tournament: Ankita in quarterfinals

June 04, 2015 02:34 am | Updated 02:34 am IST - NEW DELHI:

Ankita Raina battled her way past Basak Eraydin of Turkey 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Andijan, Uzbekistan, on Wednesday.

From being down 4-6, 0-2, Ankita won 12 of the next 13 games to overwhelm the 20-year-old from Turkey.

The results:

Singles: Pre-quarterfinals: Barbora Stefkova (Cze) bt Natasha Palha 6-2, 6-4; Ankita Raina bt Basak Eraydin (Tur) 4-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Doubles: Quarterfinals: Veronika Kudermetova & Ksenia Lykina (Rus) bt Alexandra Grinchishina (Kaz) & Natasha Palha 6-3, 6-3; Justyna Jegiolka (Pol) & Margarita Lazareva (Rus) bt Ekaterina Klyueva (Kaz) & Nidhi Chilumula 6-1, 6-1.

Pre-quarterfinals: Tamara Curovic (Srb) & Olga Puchkova (Rus) bt Sharrmadaa Baluu & Ankita Raina 6-2, 7-6(4).

$10,000 ITF women, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt: Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Cristina Adamescu (Rou) & Riya Bhatia bt Vlada Flinskaya & Oksana Uzhylovska (Ukr) 7-6(6), 6-3; Alina Mikheeva (Rus) & Martina Pradova (Cze) bt Eetee Maheta & Sharon Sanchana Paul 7-6(6), 6-2.

$50,000 men’s Challenger, Gimcheon, Korea: Singles: First round: Go Soeda (Jpn) bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-4, 6-2; Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Kento Takeuchi (Jpn) 6-2, 6-2; Karunuday Singh bt Kwon Soon Woo (Kor) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Ti Chen (Tpe) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt David Perez Sanz (Esp) & Marko Tepavac (Srb) 6-1, 6-4.

Euro 42,500 Challenger, Manchester, Britain: Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Fabrice Martin (Fra) & Purav Raja bt Scott Clayton & Richard Gabb (GBR) 6-3, 6-7(3), 10-7.

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