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Pune: <\/strong>Local girl and wild card entrant Rutuja Bhosale\u2019s dream run came to an end at the NECC-ITF\u00a0 $25,000 women\u2019s tennis tournament on Thursday as the 15-year-old lost to top seed Varatchaya Wongteanchai in straight sets. Rutuja’s loss also ended the Indian challenge at the event.<\/p>\n

Rutuja, who had thrilled the audience with her superb hitting from both flanks on Tuesday and Wednesday, found Wongteanchai\u2019s variations a bit too much to handle, going down 2-6, 2-6 in 64 minutes.<\/p>\n

In other quarter-final matches, sixth seed Celine Cattaneo upset fourth seed Nicha Lertpitaksinchai of Thailand, while unseeded Melis Sezer sent packing third seed Tadeja Majeric in a completely one-sided match.<\/p>\n

In a match watched by a capacity crowd at the Deccan Gymkhana, Wongteanchai started strongly, racing to a 4-0 lead in no time. Rutuja did manage to hold her serve a couple of times after that, but the Thai girl stayed strong on her on serve to wrap up the opening set 6-2.<\/p>\n

Rutuja hit some of her trademark forehand winners at the start of the first set, and looked like making it a much better contest, before Wongteanchai broke her in the fifth game.<\/p>\n

Rutuja did have a chance to break back immediately, but failed to make best use of the one breakpoint she got, and the Thai girl just did not lose a single game after that. The difference between the rankings of both the players was close to 800 places, and it showed, in the end.<\/p>\n

However, a quarter-final finish has given Rutuja 15 ranking points, which is bound to shoot her ranking considerably, when the new ranking list is released on Monday.<\/p>\n

Wongteanchai will meet sixth seed Cattaneo in Friday\u2019s first semi-final, after the French girl got the better of a injured Lertpitaksinchai 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. Lertpitaksinchai looked in control of the match, leading 5-3, but hurt her lower back while serving.<\/p>\n

The Thai girl managed to hold her serve leading 5-4 to win the first set, but just could not go for a big serve at all after that. Cattaneo made full use of the opportunity to race through the second set, before clinching the decider by breaking her opponent twice.<\/p>\n

Sezer ran through the first set against Majeric 6-0, and led 4-0, before the Slovenian made a mini comeback by winning three games in a row. Sezer regained her composure to win the next two games, and with that sealed the opportunity to meet Ukraine Anna Shkudun, a 6-2, 6-2 winner over Ting-Fei Juan, in Friday\u2019s second semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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