Sania Stuns Hingis

Sania Mirza’s sensational form continued unabated as she upset 7th seed Martina Hingis to enter the quarter-finals of the $ 600,000 East West Bank Classic tournament at Los Angeles. Sania beat the world No. 12 Swiss 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 to enter the last eight at the Tier-II hard court tournament.

Sania will play the winner of French Virginie Razzano and Shahar Peer of Israel in the quarter-finals. She achieved a career-best WTA ranking of 30 mainly because of her sterling form at the USA hard court for the past three weeks. Sania’s impressive build up to the US Open started with the Cincinnati Open, where she reached the quarter-finals and followed it up with a final appearance at Stanford and a semi-final appearance at Acura Classic last week. On the way, she has upset three top-20 players Tatiana Golovin, Patty Schnyder and Dinara Safina over the last three weeks.

Today it was the turn of former Wimbledon champion Hingis, with whom Sania's rivalry on court is going on for quite some time. With this win, Sania’s record against Hingis stands at 2-2, the last two having gone in favor of the Indian. Sania had earlier beaten the former world number in straight sets at a hard court event in Seoul last year.

In doubles, Sania has teamed up with American Bethanie Mattek and the duo will open its campaign against the Slovakian-Dutch pair of Janette Husarova and Michaella Krajicek.