Sania-Shvedova in Italian Open quarters

Rome May 18: India's star tennis player Sania Mirza and her partner Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan made it to the quarter-finals of the women's doubles event of the Italian Open on Wednesday.

The pair of Sania and Shvedova were to meet Ukraine's Olga Savchuk and Elena Svetolina in the final -16 but this pair did not come to court and the pair of Sania-Shvedova got a walkover.

Before that, Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova had lost in the finals of the Miami Open tennis tournament.

The couple missed the pair of women's doubles title due to losing the 4-6, 3-6 to Gabriela Dabarovski and Ju Yefan in the same set.

In the tournament, the third-seeded Indian-Czech pair reached the finals with a spectacular display, But he lost his match against the non-seeded players in the title match.

Earlier, it was the second final of this season for Sania-Barbera, who was runners-up in Sydney International, where she missed the title.