Players from 8 countries qualify for ITF Women's tournament

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Players from eight countries qualified for the tournament by winning their respective matches in the ITF Women's tournament.

The tournament will be played at Arera Club. The tournament will be inaugurated on Tuesday at 9 am in Arera Club. Director Sports and Youth Welfare SL Thoussen will inaugurate the tournament.

In the final match under qualifying round for selection here on Monday , players

from eight countries performed their best to make it to the tournament.

Matches were played in different four courts of Arera Club from 10.30 am. In this, Kerin Kennel of Switzerland beat India's Jennifer Luikham 6-2, 4-6 (10-8), Great Britain's Freya Christie from India's Ashmita Aishwaryamurthy 6-3, 7-6 (2), Israel Vlada Ketic defeated India's Snehal Mane 6-3, 6-1, Russia's Maria Teemofeeva defeated Turkey's Zeynep Sonmage 7-6 (3), 6-0.

Similarly, in the other four matches, Thailand's Punnin Kovapitukteed defeated Srivalli Rashmika Bhamidipatti of India 6–1, 4–6 (10–4), while Melini Klafner beat Vaidehi Chaudhary of India 6–3, 6–3. Se, Japan's Mana Kawamura defeated Fana Kozaki of Japan 6-1, 6-2 and China's Dan Nie Wang defeated Evgenia Bardina of Russia 6-2, 6-2 and made a place in the tournament with a prize money of twenty five thousand dollars.

The main matches of the prize money tournament will be played from Tuesday in which 32 women players will perform their best. These players include 20 ranking, 8 qualifying and 4 wild card players.

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