The 17-year-old easily beat Indian ace Rushmi Chakravarthy in the final of the women's TIF tournament.\n\n
Chin-Wei Chan clinched the singles title in the US dollar 25,000 MSLTA ITF Women's Tennis Championship in Mumbai.
The sixth seeded Indian will take on compatriot Shruti Dhawan in the semi-finals of the ITF women's tournament in Mumbai.
Sania Mirza has jumped up by 34 points to move to a career-best 132 in the latest WTA Tour tennis rankings.
Third seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya went down to Kuwait's Mohammed Al Ghareeb in the first round of the Asian Tennis Championship.
The top seed halted eighth seed Sai Jayalakshmi's winning run to clinch the single's title in the $10,000 ITF women's tennis tournament.
The victory earned the eighth seed a final meeting with top seed Rushmi Chakravarthi in the ITF women's tournament in Chennai.
Joining them were Chin-Bee Khoo of Malaysia and Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, in the ITF Futures tournament.
The unseeded Vakharia toppled the top seed in straight sets to enter the last 8 in the ITF tournament.
Ankita Bhambri had an easy outing as her opponent Shikha Uberoi of USA, retired due to a back spasm in the ITF Women's Tennis Championship.
The triumph gave Sania her fourth gold medal at the Afro-Asian Games.
The duo defeated Sunil Sipaeya and Vinod Sridhar to clinch the men's doubles tennis title at the Afro-Asian Games.
She beat compatriot Rushmi Chakravarty in the women's singles tennis event of the Afro-Asian Games.
They scored contrasting semi-final victories to set up an all-India final in the women's singles at the Afro-Asian Games.
Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthy won their matches to give India a 2-0 victory over Indonesia in the final.
The Indian ace made the grade in the singles and doubles in the second leg of the ITF women's event in Jakarta.
The 19-year-old fourth seed will meet top seed Suchanan Viratprasert of Thailand.
The Indian ace won the singles and doubles crowns in the ITF Bhavna Swarup tournament.
Jie Zheng beat Rushmi Chakravarthi 6-3, 6-0 and Na Li tamed Shikha Uberoi 6-1, 6-2 to give China a 2-0 lead.
India blanked Singapore, primarily junior players, 3-0 in the Asia Oceania zone group 1 tie.
The victory earned the 19-year old a berth in the second round of the ITF Futures tournament.
Norma Godinho challenges sporting know-it-alls.
The Indian selectors reposed faith in Leander Paes as the 40-year-old veteran was on Saturday included in the Asian Games squad along with established stars Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna.
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