Sahaja Yamalapalli beat fellow qualifer Dj Bennett of USA 6-4, 6-0 in the first round of the $100,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Charleston, USA.
The results:
€630,705 ATP, Metz, France
Doubles (quarterfinals): Sadio Doumbia & Fabien Reboul (Fra) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Bart Stevens (Ned) 6-2, 6-4.
€145,000 Challenger, Helsinki, Finland
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann (Ger) bt Maximilian Neuchrist & Dennis Novak (Aut) 6-4, 6-3; Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Linus Lagerbohm (Fin) & Mark Lajal (Est) 6-2, 7-6(5).
$80,000 Challenger, Matsuyama, Japan
Doubles (quarterfinals): JiSung Nam (Kor) & Kaichi Uchida (Jpn) bt Purav Raja & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Hua Hin, Thailand
Doubles (quarterfinals): David Pichler (Aut) & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Siwanat Auytayakul & Thanapet Chanta (Tha) 4-6, 7-5, [10-3].
$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, Tunisia
Doubles (quarterfinals): Alexandr Binda (Ita) & Chirag Duhan bt Jurriaan Bol & Brian Bozemoj (Ned) 7-6(4) 3-6, [10-8].
$100,000 ITF women, Charleston, USA
Singles (first round): Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Dj Bennett (USA) 6-4, 6-0.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Makenna Jones (USA) & Yuliia Starodubtseve (Ukr) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli & Anna Zyryanova 6-3, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF women, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Doubles (quarterfinals): Paula Cembranos & Jenny Duerst (Sui) bt Humera Baharmus & Elizabeth Danailova (Bul) 6-0, 6-1.
