Vasanti Shinde beat Emmanuele de Beer of Mauritius 7-5, 6-2 in the first round of the $10,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament here on Monday.
In a similar event in China, third seeds Sowjanya Bavisetti and Rishika Sunkara made the doubles quarterfinals.
The results:
$10,000 ITF women, Grand Baie La Croisette, Mauritius
Singles (first round): Vasanti Shinde bt Emmanuele De Beer (Mri) 7-5, 6-2.
Moulika Ram bt Simran Kejriwal 6-1, 7-5; Man Ying Maggie Ng (Hkg) bt Varunya Chandrashekar 6-2, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Liniques Theron (Nam) & Simran Kejriwal bt Nina Nikitovic (Srb) & Varunya Chandrashekar 6-2, 6-1.
$10,000 ITF women, Hong Kong:
Singles (first round): Jake Delaney (Aus) bt Karunuday Singh 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Siu-Fai Kelvin Lam & Anthony Jackie Tang (Hkg) bt Jeson Patrombon (Phi) & Mohit Mayur 6-2, 7-5.
Xiao Gong (Chn) & Rishab Agarwal bt He Feng & Yuqing Ning (Chn) 2-6, 7-6(5), [10-6].
$10,000 ITF women, Anning, China: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sowjanya Bavisetti & Rishika Sunkara bt Rui Jie Jiang & Jiakang Li (Chn) 4-6, 6-1, [10-7].