WTA Tour - Mirza sets up Venus clash in Charleston

Eurosport - Wed, 15 Apr 22:09:00 2009

India's Sania Mirza booked a second-round clash with second seed Venus Williams with a straight-sets victory in Charleston.

Sania Mirza celebrates winning her first round match in Charleston - 0

Mirza beat Sesil Karatantcheva of Kazakhstan 6-4 6-4 to line up the meeting with Williams, who enjoyed a first-round bye.

Top-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva, who rose to a career-high ranking of number three in the world last week, reached the third round with a dominant 6-0 6-2 victory over American Julie Ditty.

"I don't feel any pressure being the number one seed here," Dementieva said.

"Tonight was a good start to the tournament for me. I had never played Julie before so I really didn't want her to get into the match. It's easy to lose your concentration. I really stayed focused tonight."

Third seed Vera Zvonareva also booked her place in the third round, cruising past Paraguay's Rossana de los Rios 6-3 6-2.

"I felt pretty good for my first match of the year on clay," said Zvonareva, a finalist in Charleston last year. "I didn't expect myself to play my best, and it was a bit of a struggle at times because of the wind, but it was pretty good."

Fourth seed Nadia Petrova beat Austrian Patricia Mayr 6-1 2-6 6-2, sixth seed Marion Bartoli defeated Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia 6-1 6-3 and seventh seed Dominika Cibulkova downed Austrian Tamira Paszek 6-4 6-0.

AFP

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  1. Mirza will play well i think it will be a 3 Setter.­ Good luck Venus hopw you win

    From B, on Wed 15 Apr 9:57PM

  2. )) Respect to Sania, but she obviously has no chances­ against Venus. Anyway that is a great experince for her­ i bet. Good luck to her anyway)

    From Olga, on Wed 15 Apr 8:55PM

  3. show her some respect especially as she is the only­ woman out of 1.3 billion people from that part of the­ world to be any good, and she is treated like royalty­ out there. why nobody fancied following in the­ footsteps of the paes brothers or vijay amritraj is­ beyond me. but then they are like that with athletics­ and football too, always with one or two honourable­ exceptions.

    From sanchez.santos, on Wed 15 Apr 7:04PM

  4. bla bla bla... Well done Mirza! You ware best then­ Venus today! :-)

    From katarzynareszka, on Wed 15 Apr 5:05PM

  5. Mirza not a chance against Venus if she is on form.

    From AJ, on Wed 15 Apr 4:04PM

  6. mitza who?

    From mike, on Wed 15 Apr 11:22AM
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    luser

    From bogdan, on Wed 15 Apr 10:39AM
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