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Rediff.com  » Sports » Sania, Cara win thriller, enter WTA year-end finals

Sania, Cara win thriller, enter WTA year-end finals

October 25, 2014 22:03 IST
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Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Sania Mirza of India

Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Sania Mirza of India celebrate. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

India’s tennis ace Sania Mirza and Cara Black showed nerves of steel as they saved three match points in the Super Tie Break against Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik to cruise into the summit clash of the WTA year-end finals, in Singapore on Saturday.

The third-seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair was trailing 6-9 but showed amazing resilience to reel off five straight points in a tense Super tie breaker to clinch the issue 4-6, 7-5, 11-9 against the Czech-Slovenian combo.

Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Sania Mirza of India

Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Sania Mirza of India in action at the net. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

Playing the year-end finals for the first time but combining for the last time together, Sania and Cara came back from a set down to win the thrilling semifinal in two hours and one minute.

Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Sania Mirza of India

Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Sania Mirza of India celebrate defeating Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia in the doubles semi final. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

They will now clash with Chinese Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh and China's Shuai Peng, who scored an easy 6-1, 6-4 win over Alla Kudayavtseva and Anastasia Rodionova in the other semifinal.

Sania and Cara have lost thrice this season to Hsieh and Peng but in their last meeting at Montreal in August they emerged winners.

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