Top-seeded Sania Mirza and her Taipei partner Yung-Jan Chan on Thursday staged a brilliant fightback to reach the doubles semifinals of USD 200,000 Istanbul Cup in Turkey.
After conceding the opening set, the Indo-Taipei pair rallied to beat the unseeded pair of Sandra Kloesel and Anna Koumantou 2-6, 6-1, 10-7 in a quarterfinal clash of the WTA event.
The first set was dominated by Kloesel and Koumantou, who after going down 0-2, won six games in a row to gain early advantage.
The second set belonged to Sania and Chan, who won the first five games on the trot and held their serve in the seventh game to stretch the match into super tie-breaker.
The Indo-Taipei duo held their nerves in the decider, which was fought neck and neck, and advanced to the last four stage.
