Shapatava , Raina, Kalinina , Piter knock out seeds in Tashkent Open Qualifiers

24 September 2016

Sofia Shapatava of Georgia , Ankita Raina of India, Anhelina. Kalinina of Ukraine, Katarzyna Piter of Poland ousted seeds to move into the final round qualifying at the 18th edition of Tashkent Open WTA Championships being played at the Olympic tennis School in Tashkent.

In the first round Georgian Sofia Shapatava upset top seeded and 126th ranked Slovakian Rebecca Sramkova 6-1 7-6(4) , Indian Ankita Raina ranked 293 accounted for second seeded and 143 ranked Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 1-6 ,6-0, 6-3 . Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine ousted fifth seeded and 166 ranked Dalila, Jakupovic of Slovakia 6-0 7-5 , while Polish girl Katarzyna Piter dashed the hopes of local player and eighth seeded and 176th ranked Nigina, Abduraimova 6-4 , 2-6 , 6-3

Third seeded Hiroko Kuwata, fourth seeded Sabina Sharipova , sixth seeded Tereza, Martincova of Czech Republic , seventh seeded Ipek, Soylu of Turkey were the other players to move into the final round qualifying

Following are the results

Sofia, Shapatava (GEO) bt [1] Rebecca, Sramkova (SVK) 6/1 7/6(4)

Ankita, Raina (IND) bt [2] Ekaterina, Alexandrova (RUS) 1/6 6/0 6/3

[3] Hiroko, Kuwata (JPN) bt Lyudmyla, Kichenok (UKR) 6/4 6/0 6/4

[4] Sabina, Sharipova (UZB) bt Alexandra, Panova (RUS) 6/4 3/6 6/4

Anhelina Kalinina (UKR) bt [5] Dalila, Jakupovic (SLO) 6/0 7/5

[6] Tereza, Martincova (CZE) bt [WC] Laylo, Bahodyrova (UZB) 6/0 6/1

[7] Ipek, Soylu (TUR) bt [WC] Arina, Folts (UZB) 6/1 6/1

Katarzyna Piter (POL) vs. [8] Nigina, Abduraimova (UZB) 6/4 2/6 6/3