Sania Mirza [ Images ] is one win away from making the main draw of the women's singles of WTA AEGON International tournament as she reached the final round of the qualifiers with a hard-fought win over Georgia's Anna Tatishvili, in Eastbourne.

The seventh seed overcame a second set lapse to eke out a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 win over the unseeded rival in a close to two-hour battle in the second round.

Sania will now face Austrian Tamira Paszek, who got a walkover from fourth seed Hungarian Greta Arn [ Images ].

In the doubles, Sania and her Russian parter Elena Vesnina are seeded third and will open their campaign against Australian pair of Jarmila Gajdosova and Samantha Stosur [ Images ].

Sania and Elena had ended runners-up at French Open [ Images ].