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Sania storms into quarters
Source: PTI
April 01, 2004 18:40 IST

Sania Mirza stormed into singles quarter-finals of the Rabat ITF Women's World ranking tournament being held in Morocco.

Sania beat her doubles partner Katarina Kachlikova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-3.

Seventeen-year-old Sania had earlier demolished Dominika Wojtal of Germany 6-1, 6-0 in the first round on Wednesday.

Sania will now meet top seed Maria Fernanda Alves of Brazil in the quarter-final.

Sania and Kachlikova advanced to the semi-final of the doubles event with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Nedjahdi Samia (Algeria) and Nachit Majda (Morocco) in the quarter-final.

The Indo-Slovak pair had earlier blanked local pair Ghita Benjeloun and Nadir Ilham 6-0, 6-0.

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