Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina secured a straight-set win over Chinese duo Jie Zheng and Peng Shuai to enter the final of the Family Circle Cup WTA event on Saturday
Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina secured a straight-set win over Chinese duo Jie Zheng and Peng Shuai to enter the final of the Family Circle Cup WTA event on Saturday.
The unseeded Indo-Russian pair won 6-2, 7-5 to make the finals and be in contention for their second WTA title together after the victory at Indian Wells last month.
The Indo-Russian combine had dispatched the American pair 6-0, 7-5 in the finals of the Indian Wells event last month.
Mirza and Vesnina will now meet fourth-seeded American duo of Bethannie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy in the finals.
In the semi-finals, which lasted a little over an hour, Mirza and Vesnina dominated the opening set, converting four break points to win the set. The second set turned was fiercely contested but the Indo-Russian pairu00a0 held their nerves to win.
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