Ramya topples top seed Snehadevi after saving match points

Teenagers Ramya Natarajan, Mahak Jain and Yubarani Banerjee created a big ripple at the USD 15,000 Endurance Aurangabad Open Women's ITF Tennis Championships here today.
The biggest shock was rendered by Ramya who upset top seed Snehadevi Reddy in the singles first round at the EMMTC tennis courts, Divisional Sports Complex Garkheda.
The 18-year-old left hander eight match points to record the biggest upset of the event by knocking out Snehadevi Reddy 4-6 6-37-6(7) in a 3 hour long battle.
Snehadevi led 5-4 and 40-30 in the deciding set and 6-1 and 7-6 in the tiebreaker before her Chennai-based opponent came back to topple her.

Third seed Sowjanya Bavisetti also bit the dust, losing to Mahak, runner-up at the Asian Juniors in Pune last week, in straight sets in 77 minutes while 16-year-old Yubarani packed off no. 4 seed Fiona Codino of France, also in straight sets, in 75 minutes.
Seventeen-year-old Snehal Mane, the local wild card, put out qualifier Advaita Saravanan 7-6(3) 4-6 6-2 to enter the round of sixteen.

In one of the best contested matches of the day, Britain's Manisha Foster scraped past Kanika Vaidya 7-6(3) 2-6 7-5 in a 2 hour, 52 minute battle.
Fifth seeded Nidhi Chilumula, seventh seeded Pranjala Yadlapalli, wildcard Rutuja Bhosale , Germany's Vivien Klein and China's second seeded Xiaoxi Zhao were the other players to move into the second round.

Results:
Singles (1st round): Ramya Natarajan (IND) bt Snehadevi Reddy (IND) [1] 4-6,6-4,7-6(6); Yubarani Banerjee (IND) bt Fiona Codino (FRA) [4] 6-1,6-3; Nidhi Chilumula (IND) [5] bt Shivani Manjanna (IND) 6-2 6-2; Rutuja Bhosale (IND) bt Tejasvi Kate (IND) 6-1 6-4; Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) [7] bt Swara Kulkarni (IND) 6-2 6-1; Vivien Klein (GER) bt Hsin-Yuan Shih (TPE) 6-4 6-4; Manisha Foster (GBR) bt Kanika Vaidya (IND) 7-6(3) 2-6 7-5; Mahak Jain (IND) bt Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND) [3] 6-2,6-0; Snehal Mane (IND) bt Advaita Saravanan (IND) 7-6(3) 4-6 6-2; Xiaoxi Zhao (CHN) [2] bt Rishika Sunkara (IND) 6-4 7-5.
Doubles (1st round): Manisha Foster (GBR) [4] / Alexandra Walters (AUS) bt Aastha Dargude / Arthi Muniyan (IND) 6-1 6-4; Kaaviya Balasubramanian (IND) / Shivani Manjanna (IND) bt Lalita Devarakonda / Saumya Vig (IND) 7-6(2) 6-3; Rushmi Chakravarthi / Sai Samhitha Chamarthi bt Vasavi Ganesan (IND)/ Advaita S Saravanan 6-0 6-3.