French Open: Sania Mirza in doubles semis, Leander crashes out
Mirza and Elena Vesnina of Russia shocked top seeds Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Flavia Pennetta of Italy to enter the women's doubles semifinals on Monday.
Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina of Russia shocked top seeds Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Flavia Pennetta of Italy to enter the women's doubles semifinals on Monday.
Seventh-seeded Sania and Elena won 6-0 7-5 in 66 minutes. They now play the winner of the match between fourth-seeded Americans Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond and fifth-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Maria Kirilenko of Russia.
Earlier, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan on Monday stormed into the men’s doubles quarterfinals. The fifth-seeded Indo-Pak pair defeated Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-3 7-5. They now play top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan who overcame a stiff resistance from Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili and Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7-6(6) 7-5.
Later on, Leander Paes and his Czech partner Iveta Benesova lost their mixed doubles quarterfinal match to top seeded pair of Nenad Zimonjic and Katarina Srebotnik by 7-6 6-3. This defeat ended Paes’s campaign in Paris.