India, April 4 -- Vaishnavi Adkar's rise this season has caused a flutter in Indian women's tennis. The 21-year-old at the W 100 ITF event in Bengaluru in February became the first woman from the country to enter the singles final of a tournament of that level since February 2009.

And the player before her to do that? Sania Mirza.

Like many promising tennis talent before, Vaishnavi finds herself at the tipping point of transition. Her performances will be keenly followed as she plays in the Billie Jean King

Cup (Asia Oceania Group 1) for the first time. The tournament will be played at the DLTA courts here. Her impressive run in the ITF tournaments at home has helped her singles rankings trend in the right direction-entering the top 40...