Top seeded India's Rushmi Chakravarthy clinched the singles title defeating Magda Okruashvili of Georgia in the final of the Federal Bank International women's tennis tournament in Angamaly (Kerala) on Saturday.
Top seed Rushmi Chakravarthi of India bagged the doubles crown partnering Poojashree Venkatesha and later stormed into the singles final in the Federal Bank ITF Women's Tennis tournament in Angamaly (Kerala) on Friday.
The sixth seeded Indian will take on compatriot Shruti Dhawan in the semi-finals of the ITF women's tournament in Mumbai.
The British qualifier will meet Isha Lakhani in the final of the NECC-ITF tournament.
However, second seeded Sai Jayalakshmi failed to make it in the ITF Futures tournament.
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.
They scored contrasting semi-final victories to set up an all-India final in the women's singles at the Afro-Asian Games.
The pair of Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthi bowed out of the women's doubles tennis competition at the London Olympic, losing to the Chinese Taipei pair of Su Wei Hsieh and Chia-Jung Chuang on Saturday. The Indians fought their way back after losing the first set tamely, but were beaten 1-6, 6-3, 1-6 in 91 minutes.
India's Shikha Uberoi bowed out of the Sunfeast Kolkata Open, losing to Hana Sromova in another first round match.
The top two seeds cruised into the last eight in the Bhavana Swarup ITF tournament.
Joining them were Chin-Bee Khoo of Malaysia and Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan, in the ITF Futures tournament.
The Indian ace won the singles and doubles crowns in the ITF Bhavna Swarup tournament.
They have not played together after winning a bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games but Rushmi Chakravarthi feels she and Sania Mirza have enough individual experience behind them to again gel well as a team at the upcoming London Olympics.
Second seed Isha Lakhani and No 4 Rushmi Chakravarthi of India crashed out in the quarter-finals, in the Mother's Recipe US $10,000 ITF women's Futures Tennis Tournament on Thursday. On a dramatic day of upsets and a disastrous one for India, qualifier Moe Kawatoko of Japan shocked favourite Lakhani 7-5, 7-5 in an absorbing contest that lasted 100 minutes, while No 8 seed Chun-Yan He of China upset Chakravarthi 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) in 105 minutes.
They won their semifinal matches in contrasting fashion today to set up the title clash in the Bhavana Swarup ITF Women's tennis tournament.
J Vishnu Vardhan and Rushmi Chakravarthy won the men's and women's titles respectively at the National Grasscourt Championship.
The victory earned the 19-year old a berth in the second round of the ITF Futures tournament.
Tennis players Sanaa Bhambri and Rushmi Chakravarthi feel only Indian citizens deserve to hold the tri-colour in international sporting events, an opportunity that has been denied to them by foreign passport holders of Indian origin in the past. The duo got a place in the Fed Cup team at the expense of Sunitha Rao and Shikha Uberoi -- both US citizens -- who were rendered ineligible for selection due to the new government policy.
The second seed fell to compatriot Geeta Manohar 1-6, 1-6 in the first round of the Mumbai ITF
Rushmi Chakravarthi beat back Wilawan Choptang 7-6 (6), 6-2 win while Shruti Dhawan beat Thassha Vitayaviroj 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
The second seed demolished qualifier Minori Takemoto of Japan in the ITF Women's Futures tournament.
Chin-Wei Chan clinched the singles title in the US dollar 25,000 MSLTA ITF Women's Tennis Championship in Mumbai.
The left-handed Mumbai player, seeded eighth, beat former national champion and doubles partner Rushmi Chakravarthy 6-1, 6-1 in the quarter-finals of the US $25,000 NECC-ITF Women's Tennis Tournament.
The two players registered contrasting victories in the qualifiers to make it to the main draw of the Sunfeast Open.
The Indo-Japanese pair was beaten by the Hungarian-Ukrainian combination of Melinda Czink and Yulian Fedak at the Sunfeast Open.
While seventh seed Bhambri faced some resistance from Poonam Reddy at the Sunfeast Open on Saturday.
Geeta Manohar (Andhra Pradesh) and Archana Venkatraman (Karnataka) bagged the women's doubles title by outplaying Rushmi Chakrabarthy (Tamil Nadu) and Sonal Phadke (Maharashtra) 6-3 6-4.
Ending days of speculation, Sania Mirza was on Tuesday awarded a wild card entry along with Rushmi Chakravarthi for the women's doubles tennis event at the London Olympics.
Sania Mirza and veteran Rushmi Charavarthy registered contrasting singles victories as India blanked Kyrgyzstan 3-0 in the play-off tie to win back their place in the Asia/Oceania Group I of the Fed Cup tennis tournament in Kuala Lumpur.
Marinne Giraud upset top seed Rushmi Chakravarthi 7-6(1), 6-2 in the Mumbai ITF final.
Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthy grabbed one more gold for India in the women's doubles tennis final of the Afro-Asian Games.
However, Sonal Phadke and Megha Vakaria were shocked in the women's doubles semi-finals.
The 17-year-old easily beat Indian ace Rushmi Chakravarthy in the final of the women's TIF tournament.\n\n
The triumph gave Sania her fourth gold medal at the Afro-Asian Games.
She beat compatriot Rushmi Chakravarty in the women's singles tennis event of the Afro-Asian Games.
Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthy won their matches to give India a 2-0 victory over Indonesia in the final.
Ankita and Sana were beaten in the first round of the ITF women's tournament.
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