Mumbai, Nov. 5 -- 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, 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 singles quarter-final. Maaya returned to court less than 24 hours after registering her career's best victory, taking down 115th-ranked Katarzyna Kawa for her first WTA 250 win that ended close to midnight, . Indian players competing in ATP and WTA tournaments has been a rare sight of late in singles, let alone reaching as far as the last eight. That Maaya's run - 21-year-old Vaishnavi Adkar also won her opening match - would come at Chennai Open, which is staging its last edition for the foreseeable future as the WTA 250 event moves to The Philippines, is somewhat unfortunate. Maaya has been in good form lately. She won the ITF W35 event in Lagos last month. A coaching shuffle from the Rafa Nadal Academy to the Elite Tennis Centre in Cannes, France, seems to be working too....