Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei overcame a fighting Rushmi Chakravarthi of India with superior groundstrokes to clinch the singles title in the US $ 25,000 MSLTA ITF Women's Tennis Championship in Mumbai on Saturday.

Chin-Wei, the second seed who came into this tournament after winning the US $ 10,000 in suburban Andheri last week, defeated sixth seed Rushmi 6-4, 6-2 in 70 minutes.

The Taipei girl committed fewer errors than the Indian whose game swung from good to average much to her chagrin.

Rushmi, who is ranked 92 places below her rival at 372, and Chin-Wei traded service breaks in the third and fourth games of the first set before the Taipei woman broke the Indian player's serve decisively in the 7th game and then went on to clinch it 6-4 in 40 minutes.

Rushmi, who alternated between a double-fisted backhand to hit with power and a single-handed one for slicing the ball, was broken again in the third game of the second set, but then squandered two break-points in the 6th.

Chin-Wei then stepped up the tempo of her game to break the Indian's serve again in the 7th for a 5-2 lead.

The visitor then held on to her serve on her fifth match-point, after deuce was called twice, by drilling a forehand which brooked no return to win the set in 30 minutes and clinch the title.

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