Aarti Soni and Adelaide Gomes both advanced to the Ladies 35+ singles quarter-final round of the Wodehouse Gymkhana Ladies Open Rs 75,000 Prize-Money Tennis Tournament. In the best-of-13-games round of 16 matches, Aarti tames Surat’s Jyoti Maisuriya 7-1, while Adelaide encountered a bit of resistance before getting past Chetna Jain also from Surat by a 7-4 scoreline, at the MSLTA and Wodehouse Gymkhana tennis courts on Saturday
In other matches, Rajshree Jaiswal of Nagpur defeated Mumbai Shazia S. 7-4, while Dr. Jyotsana Patel of Mumbai smoothly got past Pune’s Niyati Jirange coasting to a 7-1 victory.
Results – Ladies (35+) singles (pre-quarter-finals): Neelam Chopra (Indore) beat Sujata Sil (Mumbai) 7-0; Priya Jain (Mumbai) beat Chandrakala Prasad (Mumbai) 7-0; Rajshree Jaiswal (Nagpur) beat Shazia (Mumbai) 7-4; Dr. Jyotsana Patel (Mumbai) beat Niyati Jirange (Pune) 7-1; Aarti Soni (Ahmedabad) beat Jyoti Maisuriya (Surat) 7-1; Kashish (Indore) beat Purnima Arun (Mumbai) 7-0; Adelaide Gomes (Ahmedabad) beat Chetna Jain (Surat) 7-4; Geeta Vyas (Surat) beat Meenakshi Ahuja (Mumbai) 7-3.
Ladies (30+) singles (pre-quarter-finals): Brinda Dayal (Mumbai) beat Gayatri Mewada (Mumbai) 7-0; Priya Jain (Mumbai) W/o Nisha Shah (Mumbai); Meenakshi (Mumbai) beat Riddhi Bhatti (Ahmedabad) 7-1; Shazia (Mumbai) beat Niyati Jirange (Pune) 7-0; Aarti Soni (Ahmedabad) W/o Nishi Gupta (Mumbai); Dr. Jyotsana Patel (Mumbai) beat Chandrakala Prasad (Mumbai) 7-1; Kashish (Indore) beat Sujata Sil (Mumbai) 7-0.