Seeds fall by the wayside

The Sai-Shruti match started interestingly with none able to hold serve till the ninth game of the first set. The match spilled into the tie-breaker which Shruti won.

Sai committed five double faults in the second set and was not consistent enough. She finally netted a forehand to give Shruti the match at 7-5.

The winner Shruti Dhawan said about her opponent: 8220;She Sai played better than she had played at Delhi. She was more accurate here.8221;

Sixth seed Jennifer Schmidt of Austria had an easy outing accounting for Marutha Devi 6-1, 6-2 in just 45 minutes. Jennifer will clash with fourth seed Sonal Phadke in the quarterfinals on Thursday.

Results: Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Nandita Chandrasekar 6-2 6-3; Yamini Tukiyandi bt Arthi Venkataraman 6-3 5-7 6-1; Jennifer Schmidt Aut bt Marutha Devi 6-1 6-2; Sonal Phadke bt Nikita Bharadwaj 6-2 6-0; Archana Venkataraman bt Geeta Manohar 6-1 6-0; Radhika Tulpule bt I-Ting Wang Taipei 6-2 6-3; Veronika Raimrova Cze bt Tara Kanbargimath 6-2 6-0; Shruti Dhawan bt Sai Jayalakshmy 7-6 9-7 7-5.