Sania, Bethanie Out Of French Open : Indian Challenge Ends

Paris: Indian challengers continued to exit from the French Open as Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands were forced to retire from their pre-quarterfinals following a groin problem to the latter, on Tuesday.

Sania and Bethanie, seeded seventh, had annexed the first set but the American encountered a groin issue in the second set and eventually they pulled out with score reading 7-6(0) 3-5 against 11th seeds Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova.

Sania and Bethanie, who had encountered a back problem yesterday, had overcome American pair of Lauren Davis and Megan Moulton-Levy 1-6 6-3 6-0 in their second round match.

Sania`s defeat means that now Leander Paes is the only surviving Indian in the French Open.

Paes has lost in the men`s doubles but is still alive in the mixed doubles, where he and Jelena Jankovic will take on eighth seeded American Liezel Huber and Brazilian Marcelo Melo for a place in the quarter-finals. 

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Sania - Bethany Semifinals of The WTA Event

Stuttgart (Germany) - Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Liezel Huber and Janette Husarova to enter the women’s doubles semifinal at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix here.

The Indo-American pair got past the American-Slovak combination 7-5, 6-4 in the quarterfinals played Friday.

Sania-Bethanie next play Germany’s Angelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic Saturday night.

Bethanie is also enjoying a great run in the singles event where she faces Li Na of China in the semifinals. The American defeated local hope Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals.

“I played Sabine last year at the French Open and she’s been playing well again this year,” Mattek-Sands was quoted as saying by WTA website. “She’s had some good results and has a lot of confidence. I knew I had to play well.

“I had some good support out there from the crowd, even though I was playing a German girl – and I’m looking forward to the same tomorrow. To be in the semis after coming back from match point down in the qualifying is a pretty good feeling, and obviously beating Sara yesterday was a great win for me.

“This has definitely been one of the best weeks of my career.”

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