Sania bowed out of US Open
Sep 5th, 2006

India's teenage tennis star Sania Mirza was ousted from the US Open, when she and her South African partner Liezel Huber were defeated in the third round of the women's doubles event. Sania and Huber, seeded 11th, lost 6-3, 3-6, 5-7 to the sixth seeded pair of Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic and Francesca Schiavone of Italy at Flushing Meadows on Monday.

The two had made it to the third round of the doubles event after beating France's Stephanie Cohen-Aloro and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain 6-0 6-3 in the second round and an American pair of Angela Haynes and Neha Uberoi 6-4, 6-0 in the first round. It was the more experienced Schiavone who had proved Sania's undoing in the women's singles. The Indian ace lost the second round match to 14th seeded Italian 7-5, 1-6, 2-6, on Thursday.