Bangalore, Aug 4 (IANS): Second seed Fatma Al Nabhani of Oman along with Xi-Yao Wang of China, Nidhi Chilumula and Rishika Sunkara made confident progress into the second round of the Zuari Garden City Open ITF women’s tennis tournament here Monday.
Nabhani spent close to an hour on court to beat Arthi Muniyan of India 6-1, 6-2 while Chilumula packed off fellow-Indian Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal 6-3, 6-1, Wang swept past Amrita Mukherjee 6-2, 6-3 and Sunkara knocked out Malayasian Theiviya Selvarajoo 6-4, 6-2.
The results:
Singles (first round, Prefix indicates seedings): 2-Fatma Al Nabhani (Oma) bt Arthi Muniyan 6-1, 6-2; 7-Nidhi Chilumula bt Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal 6-3, 6-1; Sai Samhitha Chamarthi bt Rishika Ravindran 6-1, 6-2; Vaniya Dangwal bt Sristi Salaria 6-1, 6-3; Chun-Yan-He (Chn) bt Nithya Raj Babu Raj 6-1, 6-1; 8-Xi-Yao Wang (Chn) bt Amrita Mukherjee 6-2, 6-3; 4-Rishika Sunkara bt Theiviya Selvarajoo (Mas) 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarter-finals): Pragathi Nataraj / Nupur Umashankar bt Muskan Ranjan / Sansrit Ranjan 6-3, 6-0; Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) / Natasha Pallah (Ind) bt Shivani Manjanna / Rishika Ravindran 6-0, 6-2; Rushmi Chakravarthy / Bhuvana Kalva bt Arthi Muniyan / Moulika Ram 6-2, 6-0; Sharmadaa Baluu / Prarthana G Thombre bt Sai Samhitha Chamarthi / Eetee Maheta 6-2, 6-3; Rutuja Bhosale / Nidhi Chilumula bt Shwetha Rana / Simrak Kaur Sethi 6-4, 6-0.