{"id":20292,"date":"2014-08-03T05:57:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T05:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=20292"},"modified":"2014-08-03T05:57:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T05:57:50","slug":"garden-city-open-shivani-keeps-her-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=20292","title":{"rendered":"Garden City Open: Shivani keeps her hopes alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5538\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"tennis\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Bangalore: Young Indian lass Shivani Manjanna played her heart out to keep her hopes alive for a berth in the main draw of the Zuari Garden City Open, $10,000 ITF event by defeating country-mate Pragati Nataraj 6-3, 6-4 at the KSLTA Courts here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-year-old Bangalore girl, playing only her first ITF event, gave it all she had against a much more powerful opponent to make it to the second round of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Shivani started off lethargically, but changed gears quickly to not just pose a challenge but also began attacking with a lot of conviction.<\/p>\n<p>In the marathon of the day, Malaysian Theivlya Selvarajoo overcame stiff challenge from Indian\u2019s Adnya Naik to advance 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4, in a match that lasted close to three hours.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen other Indian players along with the other foreigner, Abbie Meyers (AUS) moved into the second round of qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results:<\/strong><br \/><strong>Qualifiers round of 32:<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Sweetha Sree Hari (Ind) bt Arundathi Sudan (Ind) 6-1, 6-0; Srishti Salaria (Ind) bt Disha Satish Agarwal Ind) 6-0, 3-0 (retd); Abbie Myers (Aus) bt Saumya Vig (Ind) 6-3, 6-0; Sai Samhitha Chamarthi (Ind) bt Rashmika Rajan (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Aashima Garg (Ind) bt Abhilash Vishwanath (Ind) 6-4, 7-6 (4); Arthi Muniyan (Ind) bt Preethi Ujjini (Ind) 6-1, 6-3; Sona Sadiq (Ind) bt Nisda Shahid Kamal (Ind) 6-3, 6-4; Amala Amol Warrick (Ind) bt Nupur Umashankar (Ind) 7-6 (4), 6-3; Moulika Ram (Ind) bt Thanushree Vale (Ind) 6-4, 6-1; Rishika Ravindran (Ind) bt Sahan Shetty (Ind) 6-4, 7-5; Simran Kaur Sethi (Ind) bt Muskaan Ranjan (Ind) 6-0, 6-1; Praveen Shivekar (Ind) bt Reshma Ganapathy (Ind) 6-2, 6-1; Nithya Raj Babu Raj (Ind) bt Anushka Sathe (Ind) 6-1, 6-1; Snehadevi S Reddy (Ind) bt Ramya Natarajan 6-1, 6-1; Theivlya Selvarajoo (Mas) bt Adnya Naik (Ind) 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-5538\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tennis.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"tennis\" style=\"margin: 4px; 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