Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Czech accomplice Lucie Hradecka eked out a hard-fought win to advance the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships right here.
Mirza and Hradecka dispatched Chinese Taipei’s Chan Hao-Ching and world quantity 12 Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands 7-6, 5-7, 11-9 in a single hour 55 minutes on Tuesday evening.
The Indo-Czech pair had obtained a wild card for the match and can now tackle Japan’s Shuko Aoyama and Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia within the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 match.
Mirza is a previous winner right here, having lifted the title in 2013 with USA’s Bethanie Mattek-Sand.
The 35-year-old, who’s India’s most completed feminine tennis participant, having gained six Grand Slam titles, together with three blended doubles trophies, had introduced final month that 2022 could be her final season.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
