Mumbai's Dakshata Patel and Sagarika Phadke made the main draw of Rs 13 lakh AITA Ranking Anirudh Desai JVPG Tennis Tournament here today.
In the final qualifying round, Dakshata, seeded no. 2 in the preliminaries, got the better of AP's Chikkala Sai Nikitha, winning 6-2 7-6 (5), while Sagarika defeated Gujarat's Dharbhar Thakor 6-0 6-2.
Joining the two in the main draw was their Maharashtra statemate Srishti Ray, who ousted Pragati Solankar 6-1 6-2, also from the host state, at the suburban Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana's courts.
The main draw matches commence tomorrow.
Qualifying results:
Women's singles: Dakshata Patel (Mah) bt Chikkala Sai Nikitha (AP) 6-2 7-6 (5), Sagarika Phadke (Mah) bt Dharbhar Thakor (Guj) 6-0 6-2; Challa Harsasai (AP) bt Anandita Mitra (MP) 6-1 6-1; Nandini Sharma (Pun) bt Shivani Desai (Mah) 6-1 6-1; Lalita Devarakonda (AP) bt Arushi Bhasin (Del) 0-6 6-2 6-4; Srishti Ray (Mah) bt Pragati Solankar (Mah) 6-1 6-2; Dedeepya Sai Y (TS) bt Sharmeen Rizvi (Mah) 6-0 6-2; Nithyaraj Baburaj (TN) bt Komal Nagare (Mah) 6-1 6-1.
