Kolkata, Sep 19 (IANS) Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza Tuesday displayed her silken touch combined with raw power to move into the second round of the Sunfeast Open here even as three seeded players were shown the door.

Mirza beat compatriot Rushmi Chakravarthi 6-0, 6-4 in just 53 minutes.

She decimated Chakravarthi 6-0 in the first set, breaking her in the first, third and fifth games. A barrage of forehand down the lines and cross-court volleys felled the veteran Indian against whom the teenager already has a 2-1 win record.

Chakravarthi, ranked 457 in the world, did try to put up a semblance of resistance in the second set, but a break in the fifth game was all Mirza needed to seal the match.

The second game saw Chakravarthi coming to the net more often and that helped her win a few games with drop volleys and down-the-line backhands, but Sania soon changed her game and a few charges to the net settled the scores in her favour.

"I had a good match. There were a few nervous moments but I am glad that I was able to overcome that," said Mirza.

"I was a little rusty but this is the first tie and maybe I play better with nerves," she said.

She also praised the city crowd and hoped to make amends for the early exit last time.

Earlier, Alberta Brianti went into the second round with a power-packed 6-4, 6-2 win over third seed Yulina Fedak.

Brianti, the world No.127 who defeated Mirza in Montreal last August, took 78 minutes in a game of power tennis to make complete mockery of WTA ratings as Fedak found herself on the odd side of the court.

For the Ukrainian, this was an encore of sorts. Last year, Russian wild card entrant Elena Likhovtseva had stopped her run with a straight set defeat in the first round.

This was the beginning of the day of upsets. The next to bite the dust was eighth seed Anastassia Rodionova of Russia who was beaten in a three set thriller by compatriot Alla Kudryavtseva 6-1, 3-6, 3-6.

Rodionova never looked in her elements and was overwhelmed with the service game of her opponent and made too many unforced error to see the game slipping away.

There were more debacles in store as Aussie Casey Dellacqua, ranked 180, gave some lessons in tennis to last year's finalist and World No 50 Karolina Sprem.

The second seed was clueless to the gritty baseline game of the Aussie who in addition to a big serve matched it up with returns with such difficult angles on them that Sprem just ran herself ragged.

Casey conquered the Croat 2-6, 7-6(7-2), 6-2.

Kudryavtseva set up a second round clash with Shikha Uberoi-slayer Hana Sromova.

Sromova, unseeded here, had an easy game. She merely kept the ball in play as Uberoi got tied up in knots and presented the game to the Czech 4-6, 3-6.

The Indian, who resides in New Jersey, did not play badly but she lacked deep enough approach shots and made Sromova's task easier. The world No.132 whipped past winners with consummate ease.

The other Indian in fray Tuesday, qualifier Sanaa Bhambri, was no match for the talented Angelique Widjaja of Indonesia.

The former World No.55, who missed the entire 2005 season owing to a knee surgery, took no time in dismissing the younger of the two Bhambri sisters 6-2, 6-3.

In other matches of the day, Olga Poutchkova of Russia blew away Spain's Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-1, 6-0 to set up a second round date with Widjaja.

In a battle of the qualifiers, Iroda Tulyaganova of Uzbekistan, the former world No.16, put Chinese Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang in her place 6-4, 6-1.

In the doubles Brianti and England's Anne Keothavong defeated the Russian-Belarusian pair of Alla Kudryavatseva and Tatiana Poutchek 7-5,7-5, while Melinda Czink (Hungary) and Uberoi got the better of Sandra Kloesel and Galina Voskoboeva 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).