Florida, Apr 11: Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang
stunned fourth seeded pair of Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nadia Petrova in straight sets to storm into the doubles semifinals of the USD 220,000 the MPS Group Championships.
The unseeded Indo-Taipei pair earned a hard fought 6-4,
7-5 victory over the formidable American-Russian duo in one
hour and 19 minutes.
Sania and Chuang broke their rivals thrice in both the
sets while saving five breakpoints en route the convincing
win.
The winners will take on American Angela Haynes and
Latavian Liga Dekmeijere in the last-four pair stage.
Haynes and Dekmeijere upset second seeded Chinese pair of
Peng Shuai and Zi Yan 7-6, 6-4 in another quarterfinal
match.
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 00:00