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ITF women’s championship: Tamara Zidansek gets top billing

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World No. 70 Tamara Zidansek of Slovakia and India's pair of Ankita Raina and Karman Kaur Thandi will be the top seeds in singles and doubles respectively at the $25000 BVG Pune Open ITF women’s championship at the MSLTA School of Tennis Complex.

The seedings: Singles: Tamara Zidansek, Ankita Raina, Jia-Jing Lu, Karman Kaur Thandi, Olga Doroshina, Deniz Khazaniuk, Katy Dunne, Quirine Lemoine.

Doubles: Ankita Raina &Karman Kaur Thandi, Katy Grey Dunne & Sarah Beth, Ana Veselinovic & Yashina Ekaterina, Reka-Luca Jani & Valeriya Strakhova.

The results:

Final qualifying round: Kaylah McPhee (AUS) bt Anastasia Nafedova (USA) 6-1, 6-3; Maria Marfutina (RUS) bt Nika Kukharchuk (RUS) 6-3, 6-1; Pia Cuk (SLO) bt Maryna Chernyshova (UKR) 6-3, 6-2.

Miyabi Inoue (JPN) bt Chieh-Yu Hsu (TPE) 1-6, 6-3, 6-1; Yashina Ekaterina (RUS) bt Paula Cristina Goncalves (BRA) 6-4, 7-6 (2); Aleksandrina Nadenova bt Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) 6-3, 6-2; Mariam Bolkvadez (GEO) bt Sekulic Sarah Rebecca (GER) 6-2, 6-2; Katharina Gerlach (GER) bt Eden Silva (GBr) 6-2, 6-2.