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World Tennis Tour: In a boost to women’s tennis in India, as many as three of them made it to the last four of the ongoing ITF Women’s World Tennis Tour, here on Friday.

Rutuja Bhosale, seeded third and the top-ranked Indian in the fray with Kazakhstan’s fifth-seeded Zhibek Kulambayeva dropped a set but came back strongly to win 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-1.

In the semifinals, Rutuja will take on country mate Zeel Desai, who, oozing with confidence after a win over the top seed in the pre-quarterfinals, lost her way after the first set but was back on track when it mattered to quell the challenge of her stablemate Antonia Schmidt of Germany in three sets 3-6, 6-7 (2), 6-4 to enter the semifinals.