{"id":212376,"date":"2023-03-09T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212376"},"modified":"2023-03-09T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:32:29","slug":"rutuja-stuns-no-2-seed-valentini-in-opening-round-of-itf-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/rutuja-stuns-no-2-seed-valentini-in-opening-round-of-itf-womens-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutuja stuns No 2 seed Valentini in opening round of ITF Women\u2019s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bengaluru, 8 Mar: India&#8217;s Rutuja Bhosale shocked second seeded Valentini Grammatikopoulou with a remarkable 4-6 6-4 6-0 victory in the singles opening round of the ITF Women\u2019s Open here on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe unseeded Bhosale lost the first set but fought back impressively to overcome her World No 198 Greek opponent in a thrilling three-setter to enter the Round-of-16 of the USD 40,000 tournament.<br \/>\nAnother Indian Zeel Desai, who had won her second ITF women\u2019s tour title last month, also made a bright beginning with a facile 6-3 6-2 victory against German qualifier Rebecca Sarah Sekulic.<br \/>\nThe 24-year-old Ahmedabad-born Desai is a wild card entrant.<br \/>\nTop-rated Indian Ankita Raina also lived up to the expectations and made a winning start to her campaign by defeating compatriot Vanshita Pathania 6-3 6-0.<br \/>\nVaidehi Chaudhari, who had two excellent outings in the qualifiers, could not repeat the performance and went down to sixth seeded Indonesian Madelyn Nugroho 2-6 1-6.<br \/>\nSahaja Yamalapalli, another Indian wildcard entrant, also suffered a 6-7 (8) 3-6 defeat against Lativa\u2019s Diana Marcinkevica. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru, 8 Mar: India&#8217;s Rutuja Bhosale shocked second seeded Valentini Grammatikopoulou with a remarkable 4-6 6-4 6-0 victory in the singles opening round of the ITF Women\u2019s Open here on Wednesday. The unseeded Bhosale lost the first set but fought back impressively to overcome her World No 198 Greek opponent in a thrilling three-setter to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}