Top seed Manisha Malhotra and third seed Sai Jayalakshmi, both from India, registered�contrasting victories�to set up a semi-final clash in the $10,000 ITF women's Futures tennis tournament�(second leg) at the Shivaji Park Gymkhana in Mumbai on Thursday.

Their quarter-final victories mean�only one Indian will make it to the final,�be played on Saturday.

Sai took an�hour and ten minutes to sideline fifth seed Chin-Bee Khoo of Malyasia 6-3, 6-3 while Manisha rallied magnificently, after dropping the first set 5-7, to pip unseeded Zsuzsanna Babos of Hungary 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 in two hours ten minutes.

The third Indian to be seen in quarter-final action, Rushmi Chakravarthi, went down fighting to eighth seed Wilawan Choptang of Thailand 2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 3-6 in two hours 25 minutes.

Fouth seed and first-leg winner Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan defeated fourth seed Diana Julianto of Indonesia 6-1, 6-2 in an�hour two minutes on way to the last four stage.

Manisha was a picture of confidence and was in great form from the word go. She served�well in the first set but a lapse in concentration in the 11th game cost her the set.

With a couple of unforced errors she dropped her serve and lost the set�5-7.

But the Indian came back strongly in the second set and, with a break in the ninth game,�was able to serve out the set at 6-4.

In the decider it was the Indian all the way. Manisha outplayed her opponent in all departments of the game and with a double break, in the fourth and eighth games,�she wrapped up the match, winning the set at 6-2.

Sai Jayalakshmi had a much easier time in the middle against the slow-moving Malaysian. The Indian broke in the eighth game and then served out the set to win 6-3.

In the second set, she�forced a double break in the fourth and eighth games before serving out the match at 6-3, 6-3.

The Rushmi-Choptang tie was a real thriller. The second seeded Indian was totally out of touch in the first set and dropped serves in the first and fifth games to lose it 2-6.

But Rushmi staged a great comeback in the second set and after dropping serve in the very first game�managed to break back in the sixth. She acheived another break in the eighth game but then failed to hold serve in the very next game, forcing a tie-break.

In the tie-break, Rushmi led 2-0, 4-2, 5-3 and 6-4 before winning at 7-4.

In the decider, Rushmi was broken in the second and sixth games. Despite managing a break in the seventh game she lost the set�3-6.

Results (quarterfinals): Wilawan Choptang (Tha) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi (Ind) 6-2, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3; Akgul Amanmuradova (Uzb) bt Diana Julianto (Ina) 6-1, 6-2; Sai Jayalakshmi (Ind) bt Chin-Bee Khoo (Mal) 6-3, 6-3; Manisha Malhotra (Ind) bt Zsuzsanna Babos (Hun) 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.

Doubles: Ludmila Rozsivalova (Cze)/Julia Vorobieva (Rus) bt R Chakravarthi/S Jayalakshmi (Ind) 7-6 (7-4), 6-3; Shruti Dhawan (Ind)/Yael Gliztenshtein (Isr) bt Iciri Rai/Preeti Rao (Ind) 6-2, 6-2.