<p>For the 19-year-old from Mysore, it was first ITF tournament win at home and double to boot as she had won the doubles on Saturday along with Delhi girl Sanaa Bhambri. <br />In Poojashree’s words she played her “best match of the week” while Webley-Smith, who won the title here last week, showed signs of strain, lapsing into a stream of unforced errors. <br /><br />The second-seeded tall Indian, on her part, served with purpose and timed her ground strokes well to seize the initiative from the top seed. <br /><br />In fact, Poojashree was down 1-3 in the first set, being broken in the very first game, but hung on to break-back in the eighth and force a tie-break. <br /><br />She was 0-3 down again in the tie-break and did well to save three set-points before closing out the set. Once she snatched the first set, Poojashree kept up the pressure in the second, breaking Webley-Smith in the first game and consolidated the position by breaking her again in the seventh to serve out the set and the match.<br /><br />“She (Webley-Smith) is a very good and an experienced player and had won the tournament last week. I was a little nervous in the beginning but as the match progressed, I got better.” Poojashree said.<br /><br />Webley-Smith,25, said the two weeks of back-to-back tennis took a toll on her.</p>
<p>For the 19-year-old from Mysore, it was first ITF tournament win at home and double to boot as she had won the doubles on Saturday along with Delhi girl Sanaa Bhambri. <br />In Poojashree’s words she played her “best match of the week” while Webley-Smith, who won the title here last week, showed signs of strain, lapsing into a stream of unforced errors. <br /><br />The second-seeded tall Indian, on her part, served with purpose and timed her ground strokes well to seize the initiative from the top seed. <br /><br />In fact, Poojashree was down 1-3 in the first set, being broken in the very first game, but hung on to break-back in the eighth and force a tie-break. <br /><br />She was 0-3 down again in the tie-break and did well to save three set-points before closing out the set. Once she snatched the first set, Poojashree kept up the pressure in the second, breaking Webley-Smith in the first game and consolidated the position by breaking her again in the seventh to serve out the set and the match.<br /><br />“She (Webley-Smith) is a very good and an experienced player and had won the tournament last week. I was a little nervous in the beginning but as the match progressed, I got better.” Poojashree said.<br /><br />Webley-Smith,25, said the two weeks of back-to-back tennis took a toll on her.</p>