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Rome Masters: Sania-Hingis in semis, Bopanna-Mergea lose

May 14, 2015 20:34 IST

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis of Switzerland stormed into the semi-finals of the Rome Masters with a straight-set victory over Julia Goerges and Silvia Soler-Espinosa on Thursday.

The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair beat the German-Spanish duo 6-4, 6-3 in a quarter-final match that lasted 71 minutes.

However, Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea, who won the Madrid Open last week, lost to third seeds Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands and Romania's Horia Tecau 2-6, 7-5, 8-10 in a second round match of Euro 3,830,295 prize-money ATP event held simultaneously.

Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor, his Canadian partner, take on the pair of Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and David Marrero of Spain on Friday.

Image: Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza

Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

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