Prerna heads field for Bidar Open

 India’s Prerna Bhambri will look to continue her good run when the ITF circuit moves to a new venue, with the Bidar Open beginning at the Police Training School Sports Complex here on Monday.

Delhi girl Prerna had a dream run in Gulbarga, emerging champion with a straight-set win over Yi Zang of China. The two will be in action here eyeing another profitable week in the $10,000 prize money tournament.

Venise Chan of Hong Kong is the top seed with Nungnadda Wannasuk of Thailand being the number two.

Seedings: Wing-Yau Venise Chan (Hkg) 1; Nungnadda Wannasuk (Tha) 2; Zi Yang (Chn) 3; Rishika Sunkara (Ind) 4; Ankita Raina (Ind) 5; Yumi Miyazaki (Jpn) 6; Nidhi Chilumula (Ind) 7; Ju-Eun Kim (Kor) 8.

Wildcards: Spurti Shivalingaiah (Ind), Shalaka Manjunath (Ind), Riya Bhatia (Ind), Sanae Ohta (Jpn).

Final qualifying round results: Risa Hasegawa (Jpn) bt Yang Chia Hsien (Tpe) 6-3, 6-1; Sai Samhita (Ind) bt Sahan Shetty (Ind) 6-1, 6-4; Arantxa Andrady (Ind) bt Shruthi Vyas (Ind) 6-0, 6-0; Oleksandra Korashvilli bt Victoria Chehal (Ind) 6-1, 6-0; Prarthana Thombare (Ind) bt Bindiya Khanwani (Ind) 6-0, 6-0; Anushka Bhargava (Ind) bt Zainab Ali Sajjad (Ind) 6-0, 6-4; Vaniya Dangwal (Ind) bt Anjana Kompally (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Agathe Timsit (Ind) bt Preethi Ujjini (Ind) 6-0, 6-0.