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People enthralled on second day of ITF Women's tournament

Staff Reporter

In the ITF Women's tournament with prize money of 25 thousand dollars is being played at Arera Club. Marking the second day of the tournament on Thursday, Karman Kaur Thandi of India and Sarah Rebecca Sekulic of Germany defeated the top players.

On Thursday a total of 12 matches were played in 8 singles and 4 in doubles.

During the first match, Saujanya Bavisetti of Japan defeated Hiroko of Japan 7-62, 6-3 in the second match played at three on the court number of Arera Club.

The third match played at court number one was the center of attraction, in which the match between India's Ankita Raina and India's Karman Kaur Thandi were seen playing brilliantly.  Karaman Kaur defeated Ankita Raina with 6-3, 7-6 ponts. Similarly, in the first match played on this court, the top seed of the tournament, Jing Jia Lu, was beaten by Germany's Sarah Rebecca Sekulic 6-4, 6-1 in straight sets. Similarly Riya Bhatia of India also suffered defeat as she could not complete the match due to ill health.

The match played between Rhea and Austria's Melanie Clafner ended at  6–1, 3–0 points.

In other singles matches, Bulgaria's Gergana Topalova beat Latvia's Diana Marsikiewica 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, Sweden's Karin Kanele from Thailand's Punnin Kovapituktad 6-1, 6-3, Japan Mana Kwamura defeated Ari Hozumi of Japan 6-3, 6-2, Chihiro Muramatsu of Japan defeated Mihika Yadav of India with 6-1, 6-0 points.

In the doubles matches, Switzerland's Karin Kennel and Croatia's Sylvia Nijerich pair of Austria's Melanie Klaafner and Germany's Sarah Rebekka  Sekulic gave tough fight to each other with 6-4, 6-2 points, Thailand's Punnin Kovapituked and Russia's Maria Timofeeva and Slovakia Jacqueline Cabbage and Thailand Nudnida Lungnam were at 6–6, 6–4 points.

Tournament Director, Manoj Kukreja said that the ITF Women's tournament, which is being played at Arera Club is being broadcast live on YouTube  which can be seen by searching the ITF Women Tennis Tournament 2019 on Google.