UTR Professional girls’s tennis match: Jennifer edges previous Vanshita

Jennifer Luikham stayed calm amidst the storm created by Vanshita Pathania along with her massive serves and fluent strokes to script a 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory in a group-A match of the $25,000 UTR Professional girls’s tennis match on the DLTA Complicated on Monday.

Vanshita, who served three aces in a row in a recreation, was unnerved on the sight of victory and thus allowed Jennifer to get again into the match. A strained hamstring which didn’t reply to remedy additionally added to the woes of Vanshita, because the athletic Jennifer pulled by means of after dropping serve within the first recreation of the decider.

In group-D, the younger Suhitha Maruri beat the nationwide championship finalist Sai Samhitha 7-5, 6-3. Whereas Sai didn’t get into her rhythm, Suhitha performed properly inside her limitation to capitalise on her possibilities.

In the identical group, Riya Uboveja battled for lengthy to beat Kavya Khirwar in three units.

Akanksha Nitture was equally calm to show the tide in her favour in opposition to the fluent recreation of Sharmada Balu, for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 victory in group-B.

Hitakamya Singh Narwal led 6-4, 3-4 in opposition to Yubrani Banerjee when referee Puneet Gupta needed to droop the match in group-C.

With each participant assured of at the least 4 matches within the league section in 4 teams, competitors might sizzling up because the aspirants shrug off the concerns of defeat to play their greatest recreation.

The outcomes:

Group-A: Jennifer Luikham bt Vanshita Pathania 2-6, 7-5, 6-1; Arthi Muniyan bt Bela Tamhankar 7-5, 2-6, 6-3.

Group-B: Akanksha Nitture bt Sharmada Balu 4-6, 6-3, 6-0; Avishka Gupta bt Himaanshika Singh 7-5, 7-5.

Group-C: Kashish Bhatia bt Jagmeet Kaur Grewal 6-3, 7-6(6).

Group-D: Suhitha Maruri bt Sai Samhitha 7-5, 6-3; Riya Uboveja bt Kavya Khirwar 7-5, 4-6, 6-4.