India's US Open campaign ended here yesterday with Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Shuai Peng from China getting beaten by second seeds Martina Hingis and Yung-Jan Chan
Sania Mirza
India's US Open campaign ended here yesterday with Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Shuai Peng from China getting beaten by second seeds Martina Hingis and Yung-Jan Chan.
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Hingis-Chan beat Sania-Peng 6-4, 6-4.
Earlier, Sania reached her first Grand Slam semi-final of the 2017 season with after edging past Timea Babos and Andrea Hlavackova in a close two-set battle on Thursday.
The fourth seeded Indo-Chinese pair dispatched the fifth seed Hungarian-Czech combo 7-6, 6-4 in the quarter-final which lasted one hour and 56 minutes.
It was the season's best performance for Sania at the Majors as she fell in the third rounds of the Australian Open and the Wimbledon while at the French Open she had made a first round exit.
This season Sania has managed to win only one title — Brisbane WTA event with American Bethanie Mattek-Sands — and ended up finalist in Sydney with Barbora Strycova.