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NEW DELHI, FEB. 27. Rushmi Chakravarti kept her nerves in check in the climax to script a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Elodie Lebescond of France in the pre-quarterfinals of the Syndicate Bank $25,000 ITF women's circuit tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Wednesday. The 24-year-old Rushmi played with a lot of punch and determination in beating her 335th-ranked opponent. The Indian Oil officer did make some silly errors, perhaps in her anxiety to finish the points after tough rallies, but overall played hard to ensure nine WTA points including two quality points. The tall French girl, with a suspect temperament, had a big game but could not cajole herself to put things together in a meaningful way. She seemed to get upset on every third point, and kept banging her racquet on court with impunity. She got close to a `default' in the first game of the second set, when she served directly at her opponent, like a `beamer' in cricket, and Rushmi ducked in time to let the ball crash directly into the back-fence. To her credit, Rushmi played within herself, and did not get flustered with her errors. She served well to land two aces, and had only four doublefaults. Her opponent had six aces and seven doublefaults. Rushmi missed two breakpoints in the fourth game, but broke the French in the eighth, and served out at love in the next to take the first set. After five exchange of breaks in the second set, Rushmi missed a breakpoint in a long-drawn seventh game, and thus could not stop the match from meandering into the third set. In the decider, Rushmi played flawless for five games to take a 4-1 lead, with a break in the fourth game. It was commendable on her part to have hung on to the advantage to the end, in making her maiden quarterfinal at this level. The 465th-ranked Rushmi will take on the fourth-seeded Young-Ja Choi of Korea, who defeated Lorna Woodroffe of Britain in a second set tie-break. The other Indian figuring in singles, Sonal Phadke, was unable to make an impression against the hard-stroking Dominika Luzarova of the Czech Republic, and had to be content with $500 and 3.5 WTA points. Luzarova, fresh from her triumph over the second-seeded Eun-Ha Kim of Korea, played an all-round attacking game, to win 6-2, 6-2 in 54 minutes. Meanwhile, the top-seeded Angelika Bachmann of Germany was shown the door by Sybillie Bammer of Austria, rather tamely, in straight sets. The champion of the $10,000 event in Mumbai last week, Shuai Peng continued with her fine form. The Chinese qualifier made the quarterfinals, dismissing Camila Kremer of Germany 6-2, 6-2. The results: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sybillie Bammer (Aut) bt Angelika Bachmann (Ger) 6-1, 6-3; Shuai Peng (Chn) bt Camila Kremer (Ger) 6-2, 6-2; Young-Ja Choi (Kor) bt Lorna Woodroffe (GBR) 6-2, 7-6 (7-5); Rushmi Chakravarti bt Elodie Lebescond (Fra) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Maria Kondratieva (Rus) bt Ekaterina Kozhokina (Rus) 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, 6-4; Urska Vesenjak (Slo) bt Satomi Kinjo (Jpn) 6-2, 6-4; Eva Birnerova (Cze) bt Hana Sromova (Cze) 6-4, 6-2; Dominika Luzarova (Cze) bt Sonal Phadke 6-2, 6-2. Doubles (quarterfinals): Shelley Stephens (Nzl) and Manisha Malhotra bt Elodie Lebescond and Capucine Rousseau (Fra) 6-3, 6-2; Eva Birnerova and Jana Hlavackova (Cze) bt Ekaterina Kozhokina (Rus) and Sunitha Rao (US) 6-4, 6-4; Sai Jayalakshmy and Rushmi Chakravarti bt Maria Kondratieva (Rus) and Goulnara Fattakhetdino (Rus) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Young-Ja Choi and Eun-Ha Kim (Kor) bt Anne Keothavong and Lorna Woodroffe (GBR) 6-1, 6-1.
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