Lina glushko

Mumbai Open WTA: India’s Shrivalli Bhamidipaty continued to play freely and fearlessly and produced another remarkable performance to outduel Viktoria Morvayova of Slovakia registering a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win in the second and final qualifying round match of the Mumbai Open WTA 125K tennis championship on Centre Court at the Cricket Club of India on Sunday.

Shrivalli is the lone Indian in the qualifying round draw to make it to the main draw. India’s Vaidehi Chaudhari lost to Amandine Hesse of France 3-6, 1-6, while wild card entrant Zeel Desai retired after losing the first set 7-5 against top seed Himeno Sakatsume of Japan on Centre Court.

A two-time Indian national champion, Shrivalli, started in the same aggressive fashion as in her first-round straight-set win against second seed Valentini Grammatikopoulou from Greece on Saturday.