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Sania in doubles second round

Source: PTI
May 25, 2005 20:13 IST
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Putting behind her the singles disappointment, Sania Mirza teamed up with Russian Anna Chakvetadze to move into the second round of the women's doubles event at the French Open tennis in Paris on Wednesday.

The 18-year-old, who lost to Gisela Dulko of Argentina in her first round singles match on Tuesday, and her Russian partner had little trouble in packing off Kristina Brandi of Puerto Rico and Nana Miyagi of Japan 6-2, 6-3.

The Indo-Russian duo will now take on 16th seed Zi Yan and Jie Zheng of China in the second round.

Yan and Zheng thrashed Denisa Chladkova of Czech Republic and Ruxandra Ilie of Romania 6-1, 6-2 in the first round.

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