Rushmi trounces Kyra Shroff at ITF meet

Gulbarga (Karnataka), Sep 26 (IANS) Wild card and former national champion Rushmi Chakravarthi beat a ten-year younger and third seed Kyra Shroff 6-3, 6-0 in an emphatic manner and entered the quarterfinals of the $10,000 ITF Gulbarga Open Women’s futures tennis championship at Dr. Chandrashekar Patil stadium here Wednesday.

Rushmi set a hard pace with her power-packed forehand winners which brooked no answer from Kyra who struggled to get going and find her rhythm.
Kyra Shroff, who failed to break Rushmi’s serve even once in the match, dropped her own serve in the fifth and ninth games to lose the first set 3-6.
In the second set, Rushmi made it a one-horse race as she surged to a 5-0 lead and Kyra’s campaign ended in an abject manner with a double fault.