Tara, Ankita, Sanaa, Sandhya, Janaki in the Q/f of ITF Women

New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) Kyung-Yee Chae of Korea scored the biggest upset by beating top seed Rushmi Chakravarthi of India 6-1, 6-3 to move into the quarter-finals of the ITF Women Tennis tournament being played here in Noida.

Rushmi was completely outplayed by her Korean opponent. However, India had a lot to celebrate with five other Indians making it to the Quarterfinals of the 10,000 dollar event.

Third seed Tara Iyer played brilliantly and booked her quarter-final berth by defeating unseeded Abby Hedges of Australia 6-1, 6-1.

Fourth seed Ankita Bhambri defeated Jung-Yoon Shin of Korea 6-1, 7-5 while her sister Fifth seeded Sanaa Bhambri defeated fellow Indian Sonal Phadke 6-1, 6-3.

In other matches, Seventh seed Sandhya Nagaraj of India defeated fellow Indian Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-0, 6-4 while Janaki Gunuganti of India defeated Kelsey Sundaram of the USA after a Walkover.

The only other Indian who faced defeat was Shalini Sahoo. She lost after a well faught contest against Varanya Vijuksanaboon of Thailand 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(6).

In another upset of the day, unseeded Anastasiya Vasylyeva of Ukraine defeated Second seed Montinee Tangphong of Thailand 6-3, 6-3.

In the Quarterfinals, Sanaa Bhambari will be up against Kyung-Yee Chae while her sister Ankita will face Varanya Vijuksanaboon of Thailand. Tara Iyer will face fellow Indian Janaki Gunuganti and Sandhya Nagaraj will be up against Ukraine's Anastasiya Vasylyeva.

UNI