Sania-Bethanie pair sail into semis
The top-seeded pair trounces Lilia Osterloh and Anastasia Rodionova in straight sets to breeze into the doubles semifinals of the 175,000 Cincinnati Open.
Top seeds Sania Mirza and American Bethanie Mattek hardly broke a sweat as they trounced Lilia Osterloh and Anastasia Rodionova in straight sets to breeze into the doubles semifinals of the 175,000 Cincinnati Open.
Sania and Bethanie took little over an hour to quell the US-Russian pair 6-2, 6-3 in the quarterfnal match on Thursday.
The Indo-American pair will next face the winner of the match between Liga Dekmeijere-Ipek Senoglu and Akgul Amanmuradova-Varvara Lepchenko pairs.
Sania and Bethanie were in control right from the beginning as they held their serve, besides breaking the US-Russian pair twice, to clinch the opening set.
The second set followed a similar script as Sania and Bethanie continued their dominance, breaking Lilia and Anastasia thrice to seal matter in their favour.