 Early in 2003, still aged 15, she stepped up her schedule, and that February she reached the semifinal of a $25k tournament at Redbridge, defeating Séverine Beltrame, Sandra Klösel, and Roberta Vinci before losing to Olga Barabanschikova.She won the next tournament she entered, her third of the year and only the ninth of her career.It was the $10k event at Rabat in March; and in the semifinal she defeated Ekaterina Bychkova.