Jyotshna shines against Manisha

Manisha looked troubled from the very beginning as she was erratic with her serve and her mobility around the court also slowed down. Vasisht took advantage of her rival’s shortcomings and wrapped up the tie-breaker 7-1.

Vasisht progressed there on without looking back and relied on her power strokes to break Manisha in the first and third games to close out the second set at 4-1.

In the third set, Manisha tried to make a comeback of sorts as she took a service game off Vasisht after trailing 0-2. However, any hopes of a five-setter were dashed as she committed four double faults to virtually hand the game to her opponent. Serving for the match, Vasisht made good of the opportunity and fired an ace to march into quarter-finals of the tournament. In another power-packed match of the day, eighth-seed Rushmi Chakravorthi defeated Dominika Luzarova 4-2 4-5 (7-4) 5-3 4-2 in a gruelling two-hour-ten-minutes match. The match was evenly poised midway through the third set, three games all and one set each. Luzarova began contesting every other line call by the chair umpire.

Maja Mlakar (Slovenia)continued her fine run and made it to the quarter-finals by beating Anna Nefedova 4-2 5-3 4-0.