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This is an archive article published on August 12, 2010

Sania-Monica shock Wimbledon champs in Cincinnati

Sania Mirza and Monica Niculescu stunned Wimbledon doubles champions Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova in Cincinnati.

Sania Mirza and Monica Niculescu stunned Wimbledon doubles champions Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova to storm into the quarter-finals of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women’s Open here.

The unseeded Indo-Romanian pair shocked their fifth seed rivals 6-3,1-6,10-6 in the second round of the USD 2,000,000 hard court event.

They had earlier beaten local pair of Melanie Oudin and Jamie Hampton 6-4,7-6 in the opening round.

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They will next take on the winners of the match between Kveta Peschke/ Katarina Srebotnik and Maria Kirilenko/Victoria Azarenka.

Sania had failed to make the singles main draw after losing the first round of the qualifying event to 16th seed Serbian Bojana Jovanovski.

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