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Lakhani, Phadke bite the dust

September 04, 2003 18:48 IST

Indian women's tennis was back to square one today as two seeded players were ousted in the quarter-finals of the $10,000 ITF Futures tournament at the DLTA Complex in Delhi on Thursday.

After the high of capturing titles in similar events last month and a good showing in previous rounds this week, Isha Lakhani and Sonal Phadke proved they are yet not there as they lost to the top two seeds Suchanan Viratprasert and Chin-Bee Khoo respectively in straight sets.

Thailand's Viratprasert broke fifth seed Lakhani's resistance in the first set and then raced to a 6-4, 6-1 victory while Chin-Bee of Malaysia encountered no challenge at all in her 6-3, 6-2 defeat of seventh seed Phadke in an hour and seven minutes.

In the other all-Indian clashes, fourth seed Megha Vakharia exorcised a few demons in her as she overcame a 0-4 deficit in the second set to seal a 6-1, 6-4 victory against Archana Venkataraman.

Against such a backdrop, there came a refreshing win by Samrita Sekar, who ousted sixth seed Sai Jayalakshmi 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 to book a semi-final berth.

The victory is Sekar's best performance so far. She had reached the quarter-finals in Colombo two weeks ago. 

If form were to go by seedings, it would be a Thai-Malay final between Suchanan and Chin-Bee, who play Sekar  and Vakharia in the last-four respectively -- but the Indians would be betting on the 19-year old Vakharia to pull off a "Khoo".


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