Sania Mirza enters semifinals of WTA Dubai Tournament

Sania Mirza entered the semifinals of the women’s doubles section at the WTA Dubai Duty Free tennis tournament. Sania, partnering B. Mattek-Sands of United States, beat A. Pavlyuchenkova of Russia and L. Safarova of Czech Republic in straight sets 6-4, 6-4 in the quarter finals.

They will face C. Black of Zimbabwe and A. Rodionova of Australia. The Zimbabwe-Australia pair beat L. Raymond of United states and S. Stosur of Australia in straight sets 6-1, 6-3.

All the semifinal matches of the doubles event of this $200,000 WTA event will be held on 22 Feb, 2013.

In another quarterfinal match, N. Llagostera Vives of Spain and  J. Zheng China beat D. Jurak of Croatia  and K. Marosi of Hungary 6-3, 6-4. They will face the winner of the match between N Petrova (Russia)/K Srebotnik (Slovenia) and J Goerges (Germany)/A. Kerber (Germany)