The Indian women's tennis team, after suffering two consecutive defeats, defeated Indonesia 2-1 to clinch its first win in the Billie Jean King Cup Asia/Oceania Group One. Indian tennis player Rutuja Bhosle took an early 1-0 lead in the first singles on Thursday and then defeated Indonesia's Beatrice Gumullya 6-4, 6-1 in straight sets.
In the second match, India's top-ranked women's singles player Ankita Raina won 6-1, 6-2 over Aldila Sutjiadi and also gave India an unassailable 2-0 lead over Indonesia. Then in the last doubles match, the Indian duo of Riya Bhatia and Soumya Bavisetti lost to Jesse Rompies and Aldila Sutjiadi 6-4, 7(9)-6(7), 2-6 in a 3-set clash.
It is worth mentioning that earlier, India had to face a 3-0 defeat at the hands of China and Japan in their first two matches. With the win over Indonesia, India is at the fourth position in the points table with one win in 3 matches. Japan and China have come out at the top after winning all three of their matches. Indonesia and New Zealand are in 5th and 6th place respectively but have not been able to achieve any win in three ties so far. The top 2 teams of Group One will go to the play-offs and the bottom 2 teams are going to be sent to Asia-Oceania Group Two.
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