Teenagers Megha Vakharia and Isha Lakhani made their maiden senior women’s

Mumbai, April 10: Teenagers Megha Vakharia and Isha Lakhani made their maiden senior women's ITF Circuit tennis tournament main draw in th...

Mumbai, April 10: Teenagers Megha Vakharia and Isha Lakhani made their maiden senior women’s ITF Circuit tennis tournament main draw in the $10,000 event at the GA Ranade Tennis Centre on Monday.

Isha, in her first year of the under-16, and Megha, in her final year, ended the chances of Shruti Dhawan and R Saiswapna in the final round of the qualifiers. Shruti, who also exited from the doubles first round today, made it into the singles main draw thanks to the second seed Andrea Masarykova’s (Svk) late withdrawal this evening.

Isha defeated Shruti 6-3 6-2 and will meet Svetla Bozicnik (Slo) in the first round while Megha whipped R Saiswapna 6-1 6-0 to set up a first round date with Nikita Bharadwaj.

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Top seed Manisha Malhotra, a late entrant given a wild card, will play K Tara while J Sai Jayalakshmy, promoted to third seeding, will play Isha Chopra. National grasscourt champion Radhika Tulpule is slated to battle second seed Urska Vesenjak (Slo).

Results (women’s doubles first round)

Manisha Malhotra/Satomi Kinjo 6-2 6-0, Nona Wagh/Sonal Phadke bt Shalini Thakur/Shruti Dhawan 7-5 6-1, Urska/Masa Vesenjak bt Lucia Tallo/Antonia Matic 6-2 6-1, Marion Walter/Nina Egger bt Jennifer Schmidt/Misae Sakai 6-3 6-1, Archana/Arati Venkatraman bt Ana Sismondini/Miyako Ataka 6-3 6-3, Svetla Bozitnik/Maja Mlakar bt T Sricharanya/R Saiswapna 6-2 6-3, Karishma Patel/K Tara bt Nikita Bharadwaj/Isha Chopra 6-0 6-4, J Sai Jayalakshmy/Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Karolina Sadaj/Radhika Tulpule 6-3 6-4.

Qualifying (final round)

Lucia Tallo (Sui) bt Vishnupreetham Mhalingam 6-3 6-0, Megha Vakharia bt Saiswapna Ramakrishnan 6-1 6-0, Masae Sakai (Jap) bt Alexandra Ynclan (Esp) 6-1 6-1, Isha Lakhani bt Shruti Dhawan 6-3 6-2.