Bengaluru: India’s Akanksha Nitture continued her impressive run in the ITF Open being played at the KSLTA Stadium . The 21-year-old, who didn’t drop a set in the first three matches, registered a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over second-seeded Vaishnavi Adkar in the rain-interrupted semifinal, which lasted two hours and 18 minutes.
Nitture, seeded seventh, will take on the eighth-seeded Tanisha Kashyap , who scored an upset 6-1, 7-5 win against New Caledonia’s fourth-seeded Carolann Delaunay .
Nitture’s threw in quite a few drop shots which caught her opponent short and helped her clinch a hard-fought first set. The seventh seed took a 5-2 lead, but Adkar threatened to snatch the set with her aggressive ground strokes before Nitture struck to get ahead.
Rain forced the players to leave the court in the second game of the second set, but when play resumed, it was a different story. Adkar found her range with her strong baseline game, forcing her opponent to make mistakes. At times, Nitture had no answers to the 19-year-old’s powerful groundstrokes.
“The rain interruption broke the momentum, which I had gained till then, to a certain extent,” said Nitture, who fired nine aces in the semifinal contest.
Adkar, who was down with Chikungunya a couple of weeks back, struggled physically in the decider. Despite her best efforts to finish points early, she lacked energy while Nitture used the court well and took a 4-1 lead, which was more or less curtains for the second seed.
Nitture, seeded seventh, will take on the eighth-seeded Tanisha Kashyap , who scored an upset 6-1, 7-5 win against New Caledonia’s fourth-seeded Carolann Delaunay .
Nitture’s threw in quite a few drop shots which caught her opponent short and helped her clinch a hard-fought first set. The seventh seed took a 5-2 lead, but Adkar threatened to snatch the set with her aggressive ground strokes before Nitture struck to get ahead.
Rain forced the players to leave the court in the second game of the second set, but when play resumed, it was a different story. Adkar found her range with her strong baseline game, forcing her opponent to make mistakes. At times, Nitture had no answers to the 19-year-old’s powerful groundstrokes.
“The rain interruption broke the momentum, which I had gained till then, to a certain extent,” said Nitture, who fired nine aces in the semifinal contest.
Adkar, who was down with Chikungunya a couple of weeks back, struggled physically in the decider. Despite her best efforts to finish points early, she lacked energy while Nitture used the court well and took a 4-1 lead, which was more or less curtains for the second seed.
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