Pune, Nov 14 (IANS India’s Shweta Kumari Solanki, Sonya Dayal and Tanvi Shah survived hiccups to move into the second round of the qualifiers in the $50,000 NECC-ITF Women’s Tennis championships organised by the Deccan Gymkhana on their club courts.
In the first round of the qualifying, Shweta scraped past Treta Bhattacharyya 5-7, 6-4, 6-1, while Sonya survived a fighting Ankita Raina 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(3). Tanvi Shah scored a 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 win over Smriti Joon.

The results (1st round, Qualifying): Rishika Sunkara bt Nilaya Tarimela 6-2,6-2; Sagarika Phadke bt Prarthana Surve 6-1,6-2; Adnya Naik bt Parul Goswami 6-1,6-2; Chen Astrogo (ISR) bt Dipti Shrivastava 6-0,6-0; Gopika Kapoor bt Yulia Georgieva (RUS) 6-4,6-1; Sheethal Goutham bt Aishwarya Agarwal 6-3,6-2; Chanel Simmonds (RSA) bt Aishwarya Shrivastava 6-1,6-1; Christi Potgieter(RSA) bt Garima Vatwani 7-5,6-2; Shweta Rana bt Deepna Vazirani 6-3, 7-6(4); Sonal Phadke bt Sayali Bhilare 6-1,6-2; Shivika Burman bt Arantxa Andrady 6-2, 6-1; Shweta Kumari Solanki bt Treta Bhattacharyya 5-7,6-4,6-1; Sonya Dayal bt Ankita Raina 6-3,3-6,7-6(3); Tanvi Shah bt Smriti Joon 3-6,7-5,6-1; Tamara Curovic (SRB) bt Nupur Kaul 6-0 ,6-1.