Date:13/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/13/stories/2009011357071800.htm

Sport - Tennis

Sania and Schiavone in last eight

HOBART: Sania Mirza and her Italian partner Francesca Schiavone reached the quarterfinals of the WTA Hobart International with a straight-set win here on Monday.

The fourth-seeded Indo-Italian combine defeated Latvia’s Liga Dekmeijre and Turkey’s Ipek Senoglu 7-6(4), 6-4 in the first round.

Sania and Schiavone won in one hour and 24 minutes.

Shikha Uberoi and Germany’s Jasmin Woehr lost their first round encounter 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-10 to the Russian-American duo of Natalie Grandin and Abigail Spears. — PTI