Sania Mirza advance to the Quarterfinals round in Miami

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net,

Miami: Chia-Jung Chuang and Sania Mirza defeated eighth seeded doubles pair of Maria Kirilenko of Russia and Flavia Pennetta of Italy in the second round doubles match at Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. It was a hard won victory by the Taiwanese-Indian pair who came up from behind to win 4-6,7-6,(5) 10-4.


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Mirza and Chuang had a rough start to this match, they lost the first set 4-6 within 30 minutes. In the second set, they were down 3-5 before they fought way back in the match. They held on to their service and broke one service game to make the tally 6-6 winning the tie-breaker for the set by 7-5.



The third set was a tie-breaker with the first team to win 10 points winning the set. Mirza and Chuang showed great co-ordination to win the third set 10-4 to advance to the quarter final round of Women’s doubles. They might meet second seeded Spanish pair of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Vriginia Ruano Pascual who are facing Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Shahar Peer of Israel in their second round match.

Mahesh Bhupathi lost his first round doubles match on Saturday. Leander Paes along with his partner
Lukas Dlouhy will be playing against Frantisek Cermak of Czech Republic and Michal Mertinak of Slovakia on Tuesday for his second round match.

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