Ankita Raina storms into semi-finals of ITF women's tennis tournament

Ankita Raina

Pune, Dec 25 (IANS)

India's Ankita Raina stormed into the semi-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Serbia's Nina Stojanovic in the quarter-finals of the International Tennis Federation's (ITF) Women's $25,000 tennis tournament at the Deccan Gymkhana here Thursday. In another last eight clash, Ukrainian top seed Anastasiya Vasylyeva was shocked by Katy Dunne of Britain 4-6, 3-6.

Katy will meet Sofia Shapatava of Georgia in the first semi-final Friday. The Georgian third seed halted qualifier Magdalena Frech of Poland 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-2.

Results:

Quarter-finals:

6-Katy Dunne (Gbr) bt 1-Anastasiya Vasylyeva (Ukr) 6-4, 6-3;

3-Sofia Shapatava (Geo) bt Q-Magdalena Frech (Pol) 6-7 (1-7), 6-4, 6-2;

4-Ankita Raina (Ind) bt Nina Stojanovic (Srb) 6-3, 6-4;

Q-Cristina Ene (Rou) bt Ellen Allgurin (Swe) 6-4, 6-3.

Doubles Semi-finals:

1-Oksana Kalashnikova (Geo) and Anastasiya Vasylyeva (Ukr) bt Rutuja Bhosale (Ind) and Nidhi Chilumula (Ind) 6-4, 7-6 (7-3);

Anna Morgina (Rus) and Nina Stojanovic (Srb) bt 2-Miyabi Inoue (Jpn) and Miki Miyamura (Jpn) 6-1, 6-4.