Indian Wells (USA): Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek stunned formidable Taipei duo of Yung-Jan Chan and Chia-Jung Chuang to book a doubles semi-final berth at the $2,100,000 Pacific Life Open WTA championships here.
The Indo-US combine prevailed 7-5, 4-6,11-9 in the quarter-final encounter of the Tier I event, on Wednesday night.
Chuang and Chan are world No. 9 and 10 while Sania and Mattek stand at 25 and 36 in the WTA charts, respectively.
The winners next take on Chinese third-seed pair of Zi Yan and Jie Zheng, who defeated Czech-Polish combine of Iveta Benesova and Agnieszka Radwanska 6-0, 6-4 in their last eight encounter.
Meanwhile, Indian challenge ended in $3,589,000 men's Master Series event with the straight set defeat of Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles.
The sixth seed Indo-Bahamas duo lost their quarter-final match 3-6, 4-6 to fourth seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel.
Leander Paes and his Australian partner Paul Hanley had also crashed out in the quarter-finals.
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