Sania-Marti enter quarters

Toronto, Aug 14: Reigning Wimbledon champions Sania Mirza and Marti Hingis notched up an easy win to enter the women’s doubles quarterfils of the $2,678,055 Cadian Open tennis tourment here. The top seeded pair took just 54 minutes to defeat German-Polish combine of Julia Goerges and Klaudia Jans-Igcik 6-3, 6-2 on the outdoor hard courts of the Aviva Centre on Thursday.

The unseeded pair did not start well as they double faulted thrice in the first set. Sania and Marti had three chances to break their opponents, out of which one successful conversion was enough to seal the set in their favour.

Though Julia and Klaudia were successful in breaking the top seeds once in the second set, the Indo-Swiss combition broke their opponents twice more to easily wrap up the set and match. IANS