My original fanclub onsite report from www.sports-india.com:

Nandita looked well when I met her and Ramesh while she was warming up on court, so that I was very interested to watch her playing against German qualifying wildcard Carina Litfin. It was Nandita's first match in an European tournament, so I hoped she was not that nervous. Of course, her opponent did not know which kind of player she had to face, too - her German friends joked about whether Indians are able to play tennis - but Nandita showed them during the match that she definitely is!

The match started very fine for Nandita: Carina struggled with her first serve and was 0-40 behind. Though the German came back to deuce, she gave Nandita a fourth break point. Nandita made it and started with a lead. Unfortunately, a double fault made her face a break point at own serve, so that Litfin was able to tie the score. The German looked to be stronger especially in physical aspects, but she struggled too much with Nandita's beautiful spin strokes and acted too nervous. So Nandita took their chance to become the better player the longer the first set took. The serving player did well each until 3:3, when Carina was to serve. 0-40 triple break point for Nandita again. Our girl said thanks and converted the first one. After that, she scored many points by beautiful strokes. She just lost one point at own serve each on her last two games serving in the first set, so she had no problems to take the first set 6:4.

In the first five games of second set, the server sometimes struggled a bit, but managed to win her game. Nandita was to serve at 2:3 - and she had to face the first real crucial situation in the whole match: 0-40, triple break point for Carina. The German converted the second one and seemed to be very strong at own serve afterwards - so that everything looked like a three-set match after Nandita saved her serve easily and Carina served for the set at 5:2 for her. Her father, who had left the court shaking head during the first set as he struggled too much with her daughters game, came back to the court. This seemed to put too much pressure on Carina: two silly ground stroke and a double fault in a row made her face a triple match point at 0-40. Nandita scored another big point, coverted the first one and forced Daddy Litfin to leave the court again ;-). Still, Carina lead 5:4 with Nandita to serve, so that every break point would also be set point for the German - but there seemed to be no thrill in that match any more. You just needed to look in Carina's face who was absolutely angry about herself to know what will happen: Nandita to serve, four points in a row for her - three of them by silly unforced errors. Carina to serve: 0-40, triple break point Krishnan. Nandita did not need to do anything as she was given the break by a double fault. Of course, she did not have any problems to win her serve easily and get into the second round of Kampen qualifying.

An impressive start by Nandita, who might not look that strong physically, but showed a fantastic touch for the ball. Carina was completely unable to get used to Nanditas "Scheißbälle" (German expression, I would suggest to translate it by "fucking balls"). If you do not find the correct answer to the question your opponent was asking, you always loose deservedly.