In the ongoing 2017 Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati the Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Chinese partner Peng Shuai crashed out as they suffered defeat in the semi-finals of the women's doubles event on Saturday.

They were thrashed by the Taiwanese-Romanian pair of Hsieh Su-wei and Monica Niculescu by 4-6, 6-7 (6-8) in a match that lasted for more than one and a half hour.

In the men's doubles event, seventh-seeded India's Rohan Bopanna and Croatia's Ivan Dodig also bowed out of the US Open warm-up event after suffering defeat against Colombian-Italian team of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Fabio Fognini in the quarter-final clash.

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