Smash hit!

Delhi Public School's 16-year-old Saadgi Rajani who is studying in 12th Arts says: "I am ahead of my class."
The talented tennis player, who made a major breakthrough by entering the doubles final of the ITF championships in Pakistan recently, now hopes to go ahead of her city mates who are making it good in world tennis, by breaking into the ITF Top 150 by the end of 2009.The Amdavadi girl, who began her tennis career six
years ago and from the age of 12 onwards has won many All India Tennis Association (AITA) tournaments in the Talent, Championship and Super Series - which are stepping stones to the ITF - in different age groups.
Saadgi had even spent three and half months in 2007 honing her skill at the famed Van der Meer Academy in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and concluded her American stint by finishing runner-up in a United States Tennis Association U-18 tournament. "I lost the final to the West America number player Jordan Kelly, who was also the top seed," she says while explaining how the training at der Meer's did her a world of good. During her USA sojourn Saadgi played her first ITF tournament, in Atlanta, and reached the main draw. "It was encouraging because the field in the US is very tough." She made consistent progress in ITF events after that, reaching the last 16 at Doha in the singles and the quarterfinals of the doubles and the quarters again, in Hong Kong.
In Pakistan last month, she entered the doubles quarterfinals of the first two ITF championships in Islamabad and in the third, got the break she was seeking by storming into the doubles final with Bangalore's UM Shalaka.
In the first two meets Saadgi had made the doubles last eight. "The final tournament in Islamabad gave me the boost I needed," she says.
Saadgi will now travel to Hyderabad to participate in an ITF there (September 16) and to Sri Lanka in October.
"Now, like several of my city mates, I am looking ahead and creating goals for myself which will help me achieve a cherished dream," she says.