India's Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina on Thursday advanced to the women's doubles semifinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships with a hard-fought victory over Maria-Jose Matrinez Sanchez and Shahar Peer in Dubai.
The second seeded Indo-Russian pair defeated the Spanish-Israeli duo 6-1, 4-6, 10-8 in the quarterfinals of the USD 2,000,000 hard court event.
In the semifinals, Sania and Vesnina play the pair of China's Peng Shuai and Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh, who defeated Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-3, 2-6, 10-5 in the quarterfinals.
