Mumbai, Nov. 4 -- Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi loves playing in India, evidently. Even better if it's a bigger WTA tournament.

A year after her breakthrough tournament into the pros at the WTA 125 Mumbai Open where she went from a wildcard qualifier to a semi-finalist, the 17-year-old sizzled at the WTA 250 Chennai Open and stormed into the quarter-finals on Wednesday.

The Indian wildcard, ranked 669th in the world, defeated world No.277 Weronika Falkowska of Poland 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday. The teenager is the first Indian female since Sania Mirza to reach a WTA 250 level quarter-final in singles.

The result, and the scoreline, is even more creditable given Maaya returned to court less than 24 hours after registering her career's best victo...