Mumbai, Nov 2: Shruti Dhawan, the 16-year-old former DHAITA trainee, got her name on the WTA computer, after she upset third-seed Montika Anuchan of Thailand 6-2, 6-4 to enter the quarter-finals of the Central Bank-ITF Women's Circuit (Masters) tennis tournament at the DTA courts here today. The Delhi girl had lost to the Thai in third leg of the tournament in the quarter-finals.She thus made up for that and earned 1.5 points to get a ranking against her name. She meets another Delhi girl Shalini Thakur in the last eight. The other three seeds, however, made smooth progress into the second round.Dhawan produced powerful ground-strokes and made suitable amends for her shoddy serve in the second set to win in straight sets.Top-seed Sai Jayalakshmi, winner of two of the three satellite legs, brushed past Ahmedabad-based Nikita Bharadwaj 6-0, 6-1 while second seed Rushmi Chakravarthi faced some resistance in the second set before downing Pooja Deshmukh 6-0, 7-5.Orawan Wongkamalasai, ensured Thaipresence in the tournament when she dismissed Karishma Patel dropping just two games. She now meets 16-year-old Russian Anna Nefedova who lost one game in the first game against Priyanka Contractor in an otherwise lop-sided match.In the most exciting match of the day, Dhawan wrapped up the first set 6-2 and then raced to 4-2 as Montika double-faulted on break point.Results (first round)Sai Jayalakshmi b Nikita Bhardwaj 6-0, 6-1; Rushmi Chakravarthi b Pooja Deshmukh 6-0, 7-5; Orawan Wongkamalasai (Tha) b Karishma Patel 6-1, 6-1; Anna Nefedova (Rus) b Priyanka Contractor 6-1, 6-0; Archana Venkatraman b Sheetal Gautam 6-1, 7-5; Shalini Thakur b Niyati Shetty 6-2, 6-0; Shruti Dhawan b Anuchan Montika (Tha) 6-2, 6-4; Tara Kanbargimath b Arati Venkatraman 6-1, 0-6, 6-2.
