On Monday, Sania Mirza and her partner Mate Pavic reached their maiden mixed doubles semi-final at Wimbledon as the 6th seeds stunned 4th seeds Gabreila Dabrowski and John Peers in a thrilling 3-set battle in the quarter-final match on Court 3.
Sania and Mate Pavic will take on the winners of the final quarter-final match between Robert Farah/Jelena Ostapenko, the seventh seeds, and second seeds Neil Skupsi and Desirae Krawczyk. Both the star women, who seemed to be the crowd favourites on Court 3, put on an emphatic show, defeating Dabrowski and Peers 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in an hour and 41 minutes.
They serve in the decisive final game of the 3rd set, thereby avoiding a 10-point tie-breaker. Post their second round opponents Ivan Dodig and Latisha Chan gave a walkover, Sania and Pavic had advanced to the quarter-finals. The famous Indian Tennis star, and a winner of the Wimbledon women’s doubles title in 2015, lost in the opening round of the women’s doubles event along with her Czech partner Lucie Hradecka.
After Rohan Bopanna opted out of the grass-court Grand Slam following his run to the semi-finals at French Open, Sania Mirza is keeping India’s campaign alive at Wimbledon 2022.