Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna knocked out of Rome Masters

Sania Mirza made a quarterfinal exit from the ATP Rome Masters while Rohan Bopanna exited from the WTA event, being run simultaneously, following a semifinal defeat at the Madrid Masters on Saturday, PTI reported.

In the WTA event, third seeds Sania Mirza and Yaroslava Shvedova lost 3-6 6-7(7) to second seeds Yung-Jan Chan and Martina Hingis in the semfinals of the USD 3,076,495 red clay event.

Meanwhile, Bopanna and his partner Pablo Cuevas fought tooth and nail against fourth seeds Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut but eventually lost 6-7(5) 7-6(2) 10-12 in the quarterfinals of the Euro 4,507,375 clay court event.