WTA: Sania Mirza in doubles quarterfinals
The HinduSania Mirza, in partnership with Shuai Zhang of China, beat Tayisiya Morderger and Yana Morderger of Germany 6-2, 6-3 to reach the doubles quarterfinals of the EUR 189,708 WTA tennis tournament in Luxembourg. In the men’s Challenger in France, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Purav Raja made the doubles semifinals with a 3-6, 6-1, 10-5 victory over Teymuraz Gabashvili and Maxime Janvier. In the ATP Challenger in Turkey, Sriram Balaji in partnership with Hiroki Moriya of Japan lost the doubles quarterfinals after being two points away from winning the match at 5-2 in the second set tie-break, against second seeds Jamie Cerretani and Fabian Fallert, who prevailed 3-6, 7-6, 10-7. Doubles : Jamie Cerretani & Fabian Fallert bt Hiroki Moriya & Sriram Balaji 3-6, 7-6, ; Pre-quarterfinals: Hiroki Moriya & Sriram Balaji bt Chun-Hsin Tseng & Tung-Lin Wu 6-4, 6-1.