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Indian tennis star Sania Mirza along with her doubles partner Yung-Jan Chan from Taiwan reached in the semi final round of the Istanbul Open. Sania-Chan pair defeated Sandra Kloesel and Anna Koumantou pair by 2-6, 6-1, 10-7. The match was not easy for the top seeded pair Sania-Chan. Rather, they lost the first set by a big margin.

Times of India reported:

After conceding the opening set, the Indo-Taipei pair rallied to beat the unseeded pair of Sandra Kloesel and Anna Koumantou 2-6, 6-1, 10-7 in a quarter-final clash of the WTA event.
The first set was dominated by Kloesel and Koumantou, who after going down 0-2, won six games in a row to gain early advantage.
The second set belonged to Sania and Chan, who won the first five games on the trot and held their serve in the seventh game to stretch the match into super tie-breaker.

Sania Mirza has become an icon among youths in India. She has a growing popularity among the young people of India. Seeing her performance in the international level, people are becoming interested to tennis for the last few years. A victory in Istanbul Open will surely help her to become more confident in French Open 2007.