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.