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Ankita survives

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Wild card Tara Iyer stretched top-seeded Ankita Bhambri before pulling the trigger on herself for an anti-climactic finish in the pre-quarterfinals of the Jubilant Organosys $10,000 ITF women's tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

The champion from the tournament last week, 19-year-old Ankita prevailed 6-1, 6-7(5), 7-5 in a battle that lasted two hours and 33 minutes.

Ankita was joined in the quarterfinals by younger sister Sanaa and Rushmi Chakravarthi, while Meghha Vakaria crashed out against Lavinia Tananta of Indonesia.

The results:

Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ankita Bhambri bt Tara Iyer 6-1, 6-7(5), 7-5; Ji Chun-Mei (Chn) bt Poojashree Venkatesh 6-1, 6-3; Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Vivien Silfany-Tony (Ina) 6-2, 1-6, 6-2; Lu Jing-Jing (Chn) w/o Vishaka Sheoran; Sanaa Bhambri bt Geeta Manohar 6-2, 6-3; Ren Jing (Chn) bt Shalini Sahoo 6-4, 6-1; Sandy Gumulya (Ina) bt Sanjana Kapur 6-2, 6-0; Lavinia Tananta (Ina) bt Meghha Vakaria 6-3, 6-1.

Doubles: Quarterfinals: Sanaa Bhambri and Archana Venkataraman bt Po-Kuen Lam (Hkg) and Sagarika Phadke 6-0, 6-1; Rushmi Chakravarthi and Meghha Vakaria w/o Shalini Sahoo and Vishaka Sheoran; Wei-Ping Lee (Sin) and Lu Jing-Jing (Chn) bt Krushmi Chheda and Parul Goswami 1-6, 6-3, 6-1; Suzanna Anggarkusuma and Vivien Silfany-Tony (Ina) bt Sandy Gumulya and Lavinia Tananta (Ina) 6-3, 6-3.

Pre-quarterfinals: Suzanna Anggarkusuma and Vivien Silfany-Tony bt Geeta Manohar and Sonal Phadke 6-2, 7-5; Sandy Gumulya and Lavinia Tananta bt Oormila Ram and Poojashree Venkatesh 6-2, 6-0.

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