CHANDIGARH, AUG 2 : Fourth seeded Shweta Rana of India surrendered 1-0 advantage to Dianne Hollands of New Zealand in the second round match of the $10,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament being played in Egypt. Down by first set, Dianne strongly bounced back into the game to clinch the next two sets and the mach. She won by 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Another Indian Anushka Bhargava also made her exit as her opponent from Italy Giulia Bruzzone recorded a comfortable straight sets win by 6-0, 6-3.
Results: Singles (q-finals): Pauline Payet (Fra) bt Kristi Boxx (USA) 6-1 6-3, Giulia Bruzzone (Ita) bt Anushka Bhargava (Ind) 6-0 6-3, Anastasia Kharchenko (Ukr) [3] bt Kanami Tsuji (Jpn) 6-2 4-2 Retired, Nicolette Van Uitert (Ned) bt Susanne Celik (Swe) [5] 6-1 5-7 6-3, Liudmila Vasilyeva (Rus) bt Samira Giger (Sui) [7] 6-3 7-5, Dianne Hollands (Nzl) bt Shweta Rana (Ind) [4] 3-6 6-3 6-1, Mayar Sherif (Egy) [6] bt Alessia Piran (Ita) 6-2 6-1, Linda Prenkovic (Ger) bt Danielle Konotoptseva (Gbr) 6-4 6-4.