Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Chinese partner Peng Shuai crashed out of the ongoing 2017 Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, after slumping to a straight sets defeat in the semifinals of the women's doubles event.
The fourth-seeded pair, who have been performing well in the tournament so far, went on to suffer a 4-6, 6-7 (6-8) defeat at the hands of Taiwanese-Romanian pair of Hsieh Su-wei and Monica Niculescu in a last-four clash that lasted more than one and a half hour.
Mirza and Peng had joined forces at the beginning of the US Open Series. Last week, the Indo-Chinese duo were compelled to give a walkover after reaching the quarterfinals at the Rogers Cup as the Chinese hurt her knee.
In the men's doubles event, seventh-seeded India's Rohan Bopanna and Croatia's Ivan Dodig also bowed out of the US Open warm-up event after suffering defeat against Colombian-Italian team of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Fabio Fognini in the quarterfinal clash.
After going down in the first set, Bopanna and Dodig bounced back to win the second before going down to suffer a 1-6, 7-5, 7-10 defeat against Cabal and Fognini and eventually bow out of the tournament.
With the duo's exist, India's campaign in the ongoing tournament also ended.
