Sania Mirza and Edina Gallovits stunned fourth seeds Anna Smith and Zi Yan in straight sets to progress to the doubles semi-finals of the Guangzhou International Women's Open in Guangzhou, China.
Fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi overcame a late resistance from Arnaud Clement and Nicolas Mahut to advance to the second round of the men's doubles event of the US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York.
The writing was on the wall only a couple of games into the match. Patty Schnyder had come with a specific game plan and she executed it to perfection. The fourth seeded Swiss beat China's Zi Yan 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and 15 minutes to advance to the final of the WTA Tier II Bangalore Open on Saturday.
Frustrated by the sheer tenacity of Zi Yan, top seed Jelena Jankovic, hampered by a shoulder injury, was ousted 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 from the WTA Bangalore Open after a gripping contest that lasted just over an hour on Friday. "I gave her the whole match basically," said Jankovic, who walked into the press room straight after the match.
The best was saved for the last. After a day of mundane action and lopsided contests, China's Zi Yan showed tremendous grit to save three match points and oust eighth seed Maria Kirilenko in the first round of the WTA Tier II Bangalore Open on Tuesday night.
Top seed Jelena Jankovic retired from the Bangkok Open after suffering from heat illness in her first round match
The US-based Indian player lost 4-6, 4-6 to China's Zi Yan in the final qualifying round of the US Open.
The pair beat Liezel Huber of USA and Jamie Murray of UK 6-7, 7-6, 10-5 in the semi-finals.
Mirza teamed up with Russian Anna Chakvetadze to beat Kristina Brandi of Puerto Rico and Nana Miyagi of Japan.
The Indian pair was beaten by Zi Yan and Jie Zheng in the quarter-finals at the Hyderabad Open.
They play Daniel Nestor of Canada and Lina Krasnoroutskaya of Russia for a berth in the quarter-finals.
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