Pranjala wins the battle of nerves

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: An action-packed quarterfinal bout between fourth seed Pranjala Yadlapalli and sixth seed Vaidehi Chaudhari with the former winning the battle of nerves that lasted two hours and 27 minutes. The 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4 verdict put the 22-year-old into the semifinals of the $15K KSLTA ITF World Women’s Tour Championships at the KSLTA Stadium here on Friday.

Top seed Rutuja Bhosale faced some stiff resistance in the second set after blanking her qualifier opponent Pratyusha Rachapudi in the first for a 6-0, 6-3 win and will meet third seed Sowjanya Bavisetty in the semifinal. Sowjanya ended the foreign challenge when she breezed past seventh seed So-Ra Lee of Korea 6-0, 6-4. In a clash of the two qualifiers, Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamipathy overcame a fighting Akanksha Nitture 7-6 (4), 6-4 to set up a last-four encounter with the Pranjala