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 Womens 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.
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.


