Sania, Peng storm into the semis

New York, Sania Mirza reached her first Grand Slam semifinal of the year with Shuai Peng after edging past Timea Babos and Andrea Hlavackova in a close two-set battle. The fourth seed Indo-Chinese pair dispatched the fifth seed Hungarian-Czech combo 7-6 (5) 6-4 in one hour and 56 minutes. It is season’s best performance for Sania at the Majors as she fell in the third round at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and in the first at the French Open.
Sania and Peng now face second seeds Martina Hingis and Yung-Jan Chan, the pair which had defeated the Indian and her Belgian partner Kirsten Flipkens at Wimbledon. Sania has played with different partners at the Grand Slams this season.