Sania Mirza and Peng Shuai enter into China Open semis

India's Sania Mirza and her partner Peng Shuai had to battle hard to seal their place in the semi-finals of the China Open tennis championships here yesterday

Sania Mirza

India's Sania Mirza and her partner Peng Shuai had to battle hard to seal their place in the semi-finals of the China Open tennis championships here yesterday.

Sania Mirza

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The third-seeded Indo-Chinese pair of Sania and Peng came from a set down to beat fifth seeded Czech pair of Barbara Strycova and Katerina Siniakova 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 in the quarter-finals. Sania and Peng will now face Swiss Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-jan of Chinese Taipei in the last-four round today.

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