Rushmi Chakravarthi


Rushmi Chakravarthi is a former professional tennis player from India. She won a record 45 ITF Women's Circuit titles, the highest number set by an Indian female player. She turned professional, after playing in the first round of the WTA tournament Sunfeast Open held at Kolkata in September 2005.

Tennis career

2005–2010

She was predominantly an ITF Circuit player. In her career, Chakravarthi played on the WTA Tour on two occasions, at the Sunfeast Open in 2005 and 2006, losing in round one both times.
Her career highlight was winning four medals at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games. Rushmi has represented India at the Asian Games in 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Chakravarthi lost in the qualifying of the Malaysian Open. This was her only performance in a WTA tournament outside India.
She has also competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where she progressed to the quarterfinals by beating English Katie O'Brien, and won the doubles bronze medal with Sania Mirza.

2011

Chakravarthi partnered with compatriot Poojashree Venkatesha to win the ITF event in Muzaffarnagar.

2012

Chakravarthi was awarded a wild-card entry to the 2012 London Olympics along with Sania Mirza to play in women's doubles. The pair were beaten in a tight three-setter to Taiwanese pair of Hsieh Su-wei and Chuang Chia-jung in round one.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles (11–10)

Doubles (34–32)