Tennis News
At $75K ITF Vancouver Women's Tournament, Canada

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND,83) bt Rebecca Marino (CAN,207) 76(2) 67(3) 64

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND,83) vs Sharon Fichman (CAN,195)

Another see-saw match for Sania, very close than expected ... First 2 sets went to tie-break and both players shared a set each ... In decider Sania had bad start, her serve broke in 2nd game and was down 0-3 but Sania broke back in 5th game to bring back on serve at 2-3 ... Again Marino broke her serve in 6th game to lead 2-4 but again Sania also broke back breaking Marino's serve in 7th game and hold her serve to 4-all ... Sania again broke her serve in 9th game and hold her serve to scored win ... In final set she won final 4 games on a row that must be pleasing thing for Sania in this match.

In semis Sania is facing another unseeded 19 yrs old Canadian.
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At $15K Iran F5 futures, Tehran (Clay)

[SF] (7) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,713) l (6) Haithem ABID (TUN,677) 26 36

Ranjeet lost in semis but good performance on clay for him.