Sanchana registers upset win over Nidhi in ITF Women's tennis

Local girl Sanchana Paul created an upset when she knocked out third seed Nidhi Chilumula in the first round matches of the KSN Sports Foundation-sponsored Chennai ITF Women's Futures Tennis championships at the Madras Gymkhana club courts, here today.
Nidhi started in roaring form to swamp a sluggish Sanchana 6-2 in the first set but could not keep up the momentum in the second set where Sanchana overwhelmed her 6-0.
In the decider, Sanchana broke Nidhi in the very first game and led 3-2. Nidhi broke her opponent and levelled the score three-all but Sanchana maintained her composure to break her serve in the crucial ninth game and win the match 6-4 with a glorious winner on her first match point.

Results: Sansitha Nandakumar (Ind) beat Zainab Ali Sajjad (Ind) 6-3,6-3.
Prarthana G Thombare (Ind) [4] beat Victoria Chehal (Ind) 6-0,6-1.
Anjana Kompally (Ind) beat Nithya Raj Babu Raj (Ind) 6-3,7-5.

Eetee Maheta (Ind) [8] beat Neharika Rama (Ind) 2-6, 6-0, 6-4.
Sharon Sanchana Paul (Ind) beat Nidhi Chilumula (Ind) [3] 2-6,6-0,6-4.
Natasha Palha (Ind) [6] beat Sai Samhitha Chamarthi (Ind) 6-2,7-5.
Doubles first round matches:
Varunya Chandrashekar (Ind)/Smriti Joon (Ind) beat Mahitha Dadi Reddy(Ind)/Likitha Shetty (Ind) 2-6,6-4,10-8.
Nandini Gupta (Ind)/Neharika Rama (Ind) beat Disha Satish Agarwal (Ind)/Nupur Umashankar (Ind) W.O.
Victoria Chehal (Ind)/Ann-Christin Nilsson (Ger) beat Nithya Raj Babu Raj (Ind)/Sarah Pang (Sin) 6-1 6-4.

Kyra Shroff (Ind)/Angelique Svinos (Aus) Beat Barbara Bonic (Srb)/Xi-Yao Wang (Chn) 6-4 1-6 12-10.