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Rishika, Rutuja move ahead in ITF women’s qualifiers
Pune: Rishika Sunkara scored an easy straight set win over Arthi Muniyan, while Pune’s Rutuja Bhosale had to make a rally from one set down to beat Vasanti Shinde to move into the second round of the qualifying tournament for the NECC-ITF women’s $25,000 tennis tournament here Saturday.
Eleventh seed Rishika won 6-1, 6-1, but now faces a tough task of competing against top seed Japanese Miki Miyamura, who was given a scare by Rashmi Teltumbde in the first round contest. Miki won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Deccan Gymkhana.
A win in the second round of the tournament will earn them a spot in the main draw of the $25,000 tournament starting Monday.
In the bottom half of the draw, 16th seed Rutuja lost the first set 3-6 against Vasanti. But Rutuja pulled things back to take the next two sets 6-2, 6-3 to move ahead.
Rutuja now meets a tricky opponent in Oksana Kalashnikova of Georgia. The fifth seeded Oksana, who played an exhibition match against Leander Paes in the Premier Tennis League, defeated Arantxa Andrady 6-1, 6-3.
In other matches, Bhuvana Kalva defeated Snehadevi S. Reddy 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 and the 14th seed Shweta Rana beat Aishwarya Agrawal 6-3, 7-5.
Unseeded Diana Bogoliy of Ukraine shocked 13th seed Nidhi Chilumula of India 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 and Sai Samhitha Chamarthi caused an upset by beating 10th seed Kamonwan Buayam of Thailand 7-5, 6-3.
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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