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Mirza upset Schnyder to reach semi-finals
Sania Mirza recorded her second big upset in successive days as she packed off fourth-seeded Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in straight sets.
Updated : Sep 18, 2017, 08:08 PM IST
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STANFORD (USA): Sania Mirza recorded her second big upset in successive days as she packed off fourth-seeded Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in straight sets to storm into the semifinal of the $600,000 Bank of the West of Classic.
Unseeded Sania downed Schnyder 7-6 (7/2), 6-1 and set up a semifinal clash with eighth seed Austrian Sybille Bammer. Bammer advanced with a 6-2, 6-1 win over wild card Lilia Osterloh of the United States.
Sania had been in top form in the tournament and accounted for sixth-seeded Tatiana Golovin of France for a place in the quarterfinals.
World No. 17 and last year finalist Schnyder got off the blocks in a flash and raced to a commanding 5-2 lead before Sania came back hitting some powerful strokes and pushed the set to a tiebreak which she pocketed 7-2.
Cheered on by a big crowd, Sania was into her elements in the second set and disposed Schnyder 6-1.
"Experience and maturity are two things that I have learned over the last two years and it helped out tonight," said Sania, who reached the semifinals at Cincinnati last week.
"When I am on the court, the crowd does get me going. This crowd is always cheering and there is always a positive vibe. But at the end of the day, you are the player and you are down 5-2, so you have to get it done," Sania said.
Sania, however, said beating two players ranked in top-20 does not mean that she is going to take her semifinal opponent Sybille, whom she has never played before, lightly.
"Just because I was able to beat Golovin and Schnyder does not mean the road gets any easier tomorrow. Sybille is a great player and she is in the semifinals so she has been doing things right too.
"She (Sybille) has also been to a final this year. The only advantage maybe is that I played a left-hander today and now I will be playing another left-hander tomorrow," said the world no 35.
In the other semifinal, top-seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze will take on third-seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova.
Chakvetadze rallied to beat seventh-seeded Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 while Hantuchova advanced with a 7-5, 6-3 victory against qualifier Olga Govortsova of Belarus.
