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Sania-Elena in Indian Wells quarter-finals

Press Trust of India | Posted on Mar 12, 2012 at 03:55pm IST

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Indian Wells: Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina recovered from a second-set lapse against Timea Bacsinszky and Alberta Brianti to advance to the doubles quarter-finals of the Indian Wells WTA Premier event.

The second-seeded Indo-Russian pair scored a 6-1, 3-6, 10-2 victory in the second round of the USD 5,536,664 hard court tournament.

They await the winner of the other second-round match between the pairs of Irina-Camelia Begu/Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez and Gisela Dulko/Paola Suarez.

Sania-Elena in Indian Wells quarter-finals

Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina recovered from a second-set lapse against Timea Bacsinszky and Alberta Brianti.

Sania's singles campaign had ended with a second-round defeat against world number 26 Anabel Medina Garrigues.

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