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Sania Mirza and Shuai Peng reach US Open semis

By: Eastern Eye Staff

India’s Sania Mirza reached her first Grand Slam semifinal of the 2017 season with Shuai Peng after edging past Timea Babos and Andrea Hlavackova in a close two-set battle at the US Open. The fourth seeded pair dispatched the fifth seed duo 7-6 (5) 6-4 in the quarter-final which lasted one hour and 56 minutes. It was one of this season’s best performances for Sania at the Majors having gone out in the third rounds of the Australian Open and the Wimbledon and first round at the French Open. Sania and Peng now face second seeds Martina Hingis and Yung-Jan Chan, the…

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