Australia's Olivia Tjandramulia scored the big upset on the final day of qualifying for the WTA250 Chennai Open at SDAT Tennis Stadium with a hard-fought straight sets win over top seed Yuki Naito, of Japan.
Tjandramulia defeated Naito 6-3, 7-6 (11-9) in one hour and 47 minutes after a tense second set tiebreaker to secure one of six qualifier berths for the WTA 250 event.
While Naito went down, two other Japanese women, second seed Nao Hibino and 11th seed Kyoka Okamura, scored straight set wins to qualify for the main draw.
In the final match of the evening, seventh seed Jana Fett, of Croatia, took two hours and five minutes to overcome Thailand's Peangtarn Plipuech 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 in a high-quality battle.
Results
Olivia Trjandramulia beats (1) Yuki Naito 6-3, 7-6 (11-9)
(2) Nao Hibino beats (8) Daniela Vismane 7-5, 6-0
(11) Kyoka Okamura beats (3) Lina Glushko 6-3, 6-1
Mariia Tkacheva beats (4) Isabella Shinikova 6-4, 6-2
(12) En-Shuo Liang beats (6) Justina Mikulskyte 6-1, 6-1
(7) Jana Fett beats Peangtarn Plipuech 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
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