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Rishika, Bhuvana lose in Aurangabad tennis
Aurangabad: India’s Rishika Sunkara and Bhuvana Kalva were shown the door along with top seed Magda Linette in the second round of the $25000 Endurance Aurangabad Open Women’s ITF Championships here Wednesday.
Defending champion and World No.367 Dalila Jakupovic of Slovakia ousted top seed and World No.129 Magda Linette of Poland 6-2, 6-1 in just over an hour to record the biggest upset of the event so far.
It was an end for the Indian challenge too as two Indians in the second round Rishika and Bhuvana went down without a fight.
China’s eighth seed Xinyun Han thrashed qualifier Bhuvana Kalva 6-2, 6-2 in 58 minutes, while second seed and World No.166 Kai-Lin Zhang of China meted the same treatment to wildcard entrant Rishika, winning 6-1, 6-2 in 55 minutes.
In another upset, World No.354 Bulgarian Aleksandrina Naydenova shocked seventh seed and World No.253 Tadeja Majeric of Slovakia 6-1, 6-3 to enter the last eight stage.
Sixth seed Riko Sawayanagi of Japan, Britain’s Harriet Dart, Valentyna Ivakhnenko of Russia and Marie Benoit of Belgium were the other players to move into quarterfinals.
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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