Second seeds Sania Mirza and Shuai Zhang miss out on the Semis berth at Luxembourg

Second seeds Sania Mirza and Shuai Zhang miss out on the Semis berth at Luxembourg

By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA

India’s tennis player Sania Mirza and partner Shuai Zhang of China lost to the all-Belgian pairing Greet Minnen and Alison Van Uytvanck in a closely fought quarter-finals 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 at the Luxembourg Open in Luxembourg.

The second-seeded Indo-Chinese pair were knocked out from the tournament after a high-quality tussle that lasted one hour and 11 minutes.

During the match, the Belgian duo hit four aces and double-faulted twice whilst the Indo-Chinese pair neither had any aces nor double-faults.

Greet Minnen and Alison Van Uytvanck will now face the third-seeded Japanese pair of Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya in the semis.

Previously, Sania-Shuai mounted a win over the Morderger sisters in order to qualify for the Quarter-Finals. The match was held on Wednesday and lasted for 65 minutes with an easy win for the Mirza-Zhang duo over the German pair 6-2, 6-3.

With their Quarter-Finals appearance, both Mirza and Zhang will split the paycheck of € 1,854 and earned 60 WTA ranking points.

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