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Fifth seed Zeel Desai beat second-seeded Arabella Koller of Austria 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 in the semifinals of the $15,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Monastir, Tunisia, on Saturday.
Zeel will challenge her doubles partner Anastasiia Gureva in the final.
The top-seeded Zeel and Anastasiia lost the doubles final 4-6, 2-6 to third seeds Abigail Rencheli and Hibah Shaikh of USA.
In the $60,000 Challenger in Ivory Coast, Prajwal Dev made the doubles final along with Aleksandre Bakshi of Georgia.
The results: $60,000 Challenger, Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Doubles (semifinals): Constantin Kouzmine (Fra) & Aziz Ouakaa (Tun) bt Sai Karteek Reddy & Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 6-4; Aleksandre Bakshi (Geo) & Prajwal Dev bt AnthonyGenov (Bul) & Tom Hands (GBR) 6-4, 4-6, [10-8]; Quarterfinals: Sai and Adil bt Clement Chidekh (Fra) & Jody Maginley (Ant) 7-6(2), 2-6, [10-7].
$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia: Singles (semifinals): Zeel Desai bt Arabella Koller (Aut) 6-0, 4-6, 6-3.
Doubles (final): Abigail Rencheli & Hibah Shaikh (USA) bt Zeel Desai & Anastasiia Gureva 6-4, 6-2; Semifinals: Zeel & Anastasiia bt Coco Bosman (Ned) & Maddalena Giordano (Ita) 6-3, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey: Singles (semifinals): Yuki Naito (Jpn) bt Vaishnavi Adkar 7-5, 6-2.
Published – April 26, 2025 07:32 pm IST