Filed under: Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza’s campaign at the Madrid Open came to an end when she and partner, Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei, went down in straight sets to the third seeded Czech-American duo of Kveta Peschke and Lisa Raymond 6-7 (4-7), 4-6 in the semi-finals of the wdoubles event on Friday.
The Indo-Chinsese Taipei pair managed to convert only two of the five break points they got. In the quarter finals on Thursday, they had got the better of the Spanish second seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual. Earlier, Sania had failed to qualify for the singles main.
Roger Federer’s dominance of American Andy Roddick carried over to the clay on Friday when he won 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1 to reach the semi-finals.
Novak Djokovic also advanced to the semi-finals after a 6-4, 6-4 win over Ivan Ljubicic.
World No. 1 Dinara Safina advanced to the last four with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Ukrainian player Alona Bondarenko. France’s Amelie Mauresmo will play Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark in the semi-finals after both players won on Friday.
Filed under: Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza and her partner Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei advanced to the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters after their rivals Victoria Azarenka and Elena Vesnina conceded their quarter-final match here today.
Sania and Chuang were leading 2-0 in the first set when the Russian-Belarussian duo pulled out due to an injury to Azarenka’s left knee which was enough to send the unseeded Indo-Taipei pair into the last four stage of the 4,500,000 dollar event.
Sania and Chuang will now take on third seeds Lisa Raymond of the US and Kveta Peshke of Czech Republic in the next round.
The other semifinal will be played between top seeds Cara Black of Zimbabwe and American Liezel Huber and the fourth seeded Australian pair of Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs.
Sania is the lone surviving Indian in the tournament after Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out of the doubles event with their respective partners earlier in the tournament.
Filed under: Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza and her Taipei partner Chia-Jung Chuang moved to the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the euro 3,500,000 Madrid Masters after defeating wildcards Ma Emilia Salerni and Silvia Soler Espinosa in straight sets.
Sania-Chuang defeated the Argentine-Spanish pair 6-3 6-4 in their opening match.
They will next take on the second seeded pair of Anabel Median Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual, who got a bye in the first round.
Sania could not make it to the singles main draw as she lost the first round of the qualifying event to France’s Aravane Rezai 3-6 3-6.
