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Impressive Nirupama advances in Pune ITF

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Updated Nov 17, 2009 2:30 PM ET
     
 
Pune, Nov. 17 -- Wild card Nirupama Sanjeev made a dream comeback to professional Tennis after nearly six years by scoring an impressive 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over Serbian qualifier Tamara Curovic to enter the second round of the $50,000 NECC- ITF Women's Tennis championships here Tuesday. Nirupama will now take on top seed and 111-ranked Tamarine Tanasugarn who bettered Rushmi Chakravarthi 6-2, 6-0 in 54 minutes. Amongst other Indians in action, Poojashree Venkatesha and lucky loser Sheethal Goutham also made it to the last 16 of the event. Pojashree outplayed wildcard Rashmi Teltumbde 6-2, 6-3, while Sheetal scraped past qualifier Shivika Burman 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-4. In the best match of the day, Nirupama played consistent Tennis to outplay the tall and lanky Curovic in 81 minutes. 'I'm happy to have made a comeback with a win and justified the organisers awarding me a wild card,' said Nirupama. "I was tired after the first set, but my opponent's toilet break after the first set helped me to recover and finish off." Nirupama led 5-4 having broken Curovic in the third game, but was broken back by Curovic in the tenth to level scores. Curovic then led 6-5, but Nirupama played some solid backhands and served consistently to hold on to her serve and force a tiebreak. The 34-year old Nirupama proved too wily for the young Curovic in the tiebreak. A shattered Curovic surrendered a 2-0 lead in the second set as Nirupama broke back in the fourth game to restore parity and again in the eighth to win the set and the match. The 420th-ranked Nudnida Luangnam of Thailand scored a 7-5, 1-6, 5-0 (retd) win over fourth seed and 193rd ranked Ksenia Palkina of Krgyzstan. The results:First round: Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi 6-2, 6-0; Nirupama Sanjeev bt Tamara Curovic ( Srb) 7-6 (5),6-3; Noppawan Lertcheewakarn( Tha) bt Ganna Piven(Ukr) 7-6 (3),6-3; Nina Bratchikova (Rus) bt Prerna Bhambri 6-4, 6-3; Nudnida Luangnam( tha) bt Ksenia Palkina 7-5, 1-6, 5-0 (retd); Varatchaya Wongteanchai ( Tha) bt Shweta Kumari Solanki 6-2,6-3; Shiho Hisamatsu (Jpn) bt Keren Shlomo ( Isr) 6-2,2-6,7-5; Anastasiya Vasylyeva (Ukr) bt Nicole Clerico( Ita) 6-3,6-2; Poojashree Venkatesha bt Rashmi Teltumbde 6-2,6-3; Bojana Jovanovski(Srb) bt Rishika Sunkara 6-4,7-5; Sheethal Goutham bt Shivika Burman 7-6 (2),2-6,6-4; Chen Astrogo( Isr) bt Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) 6-2,4-6,6-1; Sabina Sharipova(Uzb) bt Magali de Lattre(Por) 6-4,6-3. Published by HT Syndication with permission from Indo-Asian News Service. For more information on news feed please contact Sarabjit Jagirdar at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com

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