February 3rd 2011, Kolkata, India: Playing in the best possible weather conditions at the Tollygunge golf course, 18 year old rookie professional, Tanya Wadhwa became a joint leader with veteran professional Simi Mehra after the second round of the 9th leg of the Hero Honda Women’s professional golf Tour. Turning in a score of 71, one over par, Tanya

Nalini Singh

opened her score with a bogey on the very first hole. Thereafter Tanya played consistently and she went out in 35 having made 8 pars. Tanya continued her consistency coming in with another 7 pars, with just one birdie and one bogey to finish level par in the back nine.

Overnight leader Simi played an indifferent round to finish at 74. Simi’s lone birdie on the 6th hole was not good enough for her to be the sole leader after 36 holes.

Tour leader Sharmila Nicollet improved her position with a score of 72. Sharmila’s commendable performance has placed her at tied fourth position with Nalini Singh ( Siwach) who carded another 74 for a two day total 148.

Local lady Neha Tripathi who was in the joint second position after round one, failed to strike form after having carded an 80. After making a triple bogey on the 7th Hole , Neha fell back to 7th position with her indifferent score today. Five players had to retire as the missed they cut.

Going into the final round tomorrow, the stage is all set for an exciting high pressure finish.

The top three women professional players Simi Mehra, Tanya Wadhwa and Sharmila Nicollet were drawn together and will tee off at 0930am.




SCORES:- 

			TOTAL
Player	Rd2	Rd1	R1+R2
Tanya Wadhwa	71	73	144
Smriti Mehra	74	70	144
Sharmila Nicollet	72	76	148
Nalini Singh (Siwach)	74	74	148
Saaniya Sharma	76	76	152
Vandana Agarwal	77	75	152
Neha Tripathi	80	73	153
Pallavi Jain	74	81	155
Nitika Jadeja	78	77	155
Nikki Ponappa	79	81	160
Mita Gowande	85	82	167
Priya Puri	83	85	168
Nalini Singh	0	77	77
Cut______________Rule {+16}______After Day2
Megha Mehdiratta (A)	89	80	169
Preetinder Kaur	88	79	167
Cut______________Rule {+16}______After Day1
Seema Sobti	0	88	88
Rukmini Mehta	0	92	92