Thursday, July 12, 2007

Natasha Palha - Factfile for 2007

Date of Birth : - 17th January 1994
Singles Win/Loss Record - 26/1
Doubles Win/Loss Record - 13/3

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PYC Asian Tennis Federation U-14 SERIES
May 2007, Pune

Singles
Beat Pooja Narayana (India) 6-1, 6-3
Beat Urmila Gunuganti (India) 6-0, 6-1
Beat Namita Bal (India) 6-3, 6-7, 7-6
Beat Zainab Ali Sajjad (India) 6-4, 6-4
FINAL Beat Ankita Raina (India) 6-0, 6-0

Doubles - (Partnering - Namita Bal of India)
Beat Aishwarya Nunes (India)/B Ekta Singh (India) 6-1, 6-1
Beat Shruti Jaiswal (India)/Zainab Ali Sajjad (India) 6-1, 6-2
Beat Teertha Iska (India)/Ravina Shetty (India) 6-1, 1-6, 6-2
FINAL Beat Vaidehi Bhagwat (India)/Prarthana Thombre (India) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4

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Asian Tennis Federation 14 & Under Series,
Damascus, Syria
2-6 July 2007

Singles
Beat Kiet Alsadi (Syria) 7-6,6-2
Beat Diala Jamal El Deen (Syria) 6-2, 6-1
Beat Sherene Wijesingh (Sri Lanka) 6-1, 6-1
Beat Namita Bal (India) 7-5, 6-3
FINAL Beat Prarthana Thombare (India) 6-3, 6-3

Doubles - (Partnering - Namita Bal of India)
Lost to Diana Maki (Syria)/Kim Alsadi (Syria) 6-7, 4-6

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Asian Tennis Federation 14 & Under Series,
Amman, Jordan
9-13 July 2007

Singles
Bye
Beat Diala Jamal El Deen (Syria) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
Beat Riddhi Hegde (India) 6-3, 6-0
Beat Vaidehi Bhagwat (India) 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
FINAL Lost to Prarthana Thombare (India) 4-6, 7-6, 5-7

Doubles - (Partnering - Namita Bal of India)
Beat Diana Maki (Syria)/Diala Jamal El Deen (Syria) 6-6, 6-3
Beat Vaidehi Bhagwat (India)/Prarthana Thombre (India) 6-3, 7-6
FINAL Beat Yasodara Karunaratne (Sri Lanka)/Sherene Wijesingh (Sri Lanka) 6-2, 6-0

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Asian Tennis Federation 14 & Under Series,
Chandigarh, India
29 October 2007

Singles
Beat Ayushi Singh (India) 6-0, 6-0
Beat Shreya Pasricha (India) 6-0, 6-0
Beat Harnoor Kaur Mann (India) 6-2, 6-2
Beat Arzoo Malik (India) 6-2, 6-2
FINAL Beat Vaidehi Bhagwat (India) 6-4, 6-7, 6-4

Doubles - (Partnering - Vaidehi Bhagwat of India)
Bye
Beat Nithya Raj (India)/Saranya Verma (India) 4-0, 4-1
Beat Nikitha Shetty (India)/Arzoo Malik (India) 6-0, 6-0
FINAL Beat Zainab Sajjad Ali (India)/Anushka Bhargava (India) 6-0, 6-4

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Riffa Cup
Manama, Bahrain
12-16 November 2007

Singles
Bye
Beat Nicolette Wolny (USA) 7-5, 6-4
Beat Jonicka Guba (Philippines) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
Beat Arzoo Malik (India) 6-1, 6-2
FINAL Beat Natasha Rizvi (USA) 7-6, 6-4

Doubles - (Partnering - Anushka Bhargava of India)
Bye
Beat Chandler Beachy (USA)/Nadia Al-fardan (Bahrain) 6-0, 6-0
Lost to Arzoo Malik (India)/Nicolette Wolny (USA) 2-6, 7-6

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Asian Tennis Federation 14 & Under Series,
Manama, Bahrain
19-23 November 2007

Singles
Bye
Beat Azza Al Hinai (Oman) 6-0, 6-0
Beat Diala Jamaleddin (Syria) 6-0, 6-0
Beat Vaidehi Bhagwat (India) 6-2, 6-0
FINAL Beat Jonicka Guba (Philippines) 6-3, 7-5

Doubles - (Partnering - Namita Bal of India)
Bye
Beat Diala Jamaleddin (Syria)/Mehek Khokar (Pakistan) 6-1, 6-1
Beat Adelle Boey (Malaysia)/Jonicka Guba (Philippines) 3-6, 7-5, 10/8
FINAL Beat Vaidehi Bhagwat (India)/Anushka Bhargava (India) 6-3, 2-6, 10/4

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Ranked 1st in Asia in U-14 as per rankings released on 3rd December by the Asian Tennis Federation

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Bhakti Kulkarni and Ivana Furtado - In Short


Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni
1. Goa's first titled player - Woman FIDE Master
2. First Goan to qualify for the National Women's 'A'
and appeared on the prize list in her first attempt in 2006.
3. Won the Bronze Medal in the Asian Girls Under 14 in New Delhi in 2005.
4. Won the Gold Medal in the Asian Girls Under 14 in Teheran in 2006.
5. Won the Silver Medal in the Asian Girls Under 16 in Tashkent in 2007.
6. Won the Gold Medal in the Commonwealth Girls Under 18 in Mumbai in 2006.
7. Won the Goa State Men's Championship three years in a row from 2004-2006.

Ivana Maria Furtado
1. Youngest Indian World Champion in any sport when she won the Gold Medal
in the World Youth Girls Under 8 in Batumi, Georgia in 2006. (Her name appears
in the Limca Book of records for this feat on page 400).
2. Won the Bronze Medal in the Asian Girls Under 8 in New Delhi in 2005.
3. Won the Silver Medal in the Asian Girls Under 8 in Teheran in 2006.
4. Won the Gold Medal in the Asian Schools Girls Under 7 in Singapore in 2006
and the Gold Medal for the Team Championship.
5. Won the Gold Medal in the World Schools Girls Under 8 in Greece in 2007
and the Gold Medal for the Team Championship.
Between the two of them, both the girls have won 10 international medals (6 Gold,
2 Silver and 2 Bronze) in a period of 1.5 years

Courtesy - Sameer Salgaocar