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Kelsey sails into quarterfinals

ANGAMALY: Kelsey Sundaram found her groove at the ITF Federal Bank international women’s tournament here on Wednesday, crushing eighth-seeded Julia Matojan of Estonia 6-1, 6-0 with surprising ease to enter the quarterfinals.

“This is my first quarterfinal in the senior ITF circuit, my best tournament,” said Kelsey.

A couple of hours before that, she completed her first-round match, a three-setter which was stopped last evening owing to bad light.

Meanwhile, top-seeded Rushmi Chakravarthi was forced to a second-set tie-breaker by Hyderabad’s Geeta Manohar before progressing to the quarterfinals, while third-seeded Korean Yu Min-Hwa and Parul Goswami, the fifth seed, also made the grade.

The results: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Geeta Manohar 7-3, 7-6(5); Miki Miyamura (Jpn) bt Goele Lemmens (Bel) 6-3, 6-0; Shalini Sahoo bt Archana Venkataraman 6-3, 6-3; Sweta Kumari Solanki bt Trang Huynh Phuong Dai (Vie) 6-1, 6-3; Kelsey Sundaram (U.S.) bt Julia Matojan (Est) 6-1, 6-0; Yu Min-Hwa (Kor) bt Nicola Mooney (GBR) 6-2, 6-2; Parul Goswami bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-0, 6-2.

First round: Kelsey bt Asha Nandakumar 7-6(4), 5-7, 6-1; Nicola bt Chika Terasawa (Jpn) 5-7, 6-3, 6-1.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Rushmi Chakravarthi & V. Poojashree bt Yuri Kurashima & Chika Terasawa (Jpn) 6-2, 6-1; Parul Goswami & Sonal Phadke bt Shilpi Jaiswal & Abhilasha Ahuja 6-2, 6-2; Asha Nandakumar & Shweta Kakhandki Gadigeppa bt Miki Miyamura (Jpn) & Arthi Venkataraman 7-5, 6-2; Geetha Manohar & Archana Venkataraman bt Harshini Reddy & Jilke Nelord 6-3, 6-1.

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