 "China Open: Sania Mirza-Peng Shuai battle past Barbara Strycova-Katerina Siniakova to progress to semis")
Beijing: India’s Sania Mirza and her partner Peng Shuai had to battle hard to seal their place in the semi-finals of the China Open tennis championships in Beijing on Friday. [caption id=“attachment_3006462” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of Sania Mirza. PTI[/caption] The third-seeded India-China duo of Sania and Peng defeated fifth seeds Czech pair of Barbara Strycova and Katerina Siniakova 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 in the quarter-finals. Sania and Peng will now face Swiss Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-jan of Chinese Taipei in the last-four round on Saturday.
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