Sania-Elena in second round of Madrid Open

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her partner Elena Vesnina of Russia registered an upset victory over eighth-seeded Czech pair of Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova to move into the second round of the women's doubles euro 3,500,000 Madrid Masters tennis.

Sania and Elena came back from one set down to notch a 3-6, 6-1, 10-2 victory on red clay.

The duo will now take on Nadia Petrova of Russia and Australian Anastasia Rodionova for a berth in the last eight stage of the tournament.

Sania Mirza in quarterfinals of Family Circle Cup

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza advanced to the quarterfinals of the Family Circle Cup WTA tournament at Charleston with a straight-set victory over Sabine Lisicki of Germany.

Sania, who made it to the main draw through the qualifying rounds, beat the German wild card entrant 6-4 6-4 in the second round singles match of the $721,000 prize money clay court event.

She will now meet 11th seed Shuai Peng of China in the quarterfinals. Peng had upset seventh seed Russian Nadia Petrova 6-3 5-7 6-2 in another second round match.

Sania has also reached the quarterfinals in the doubles with her partner Elena Vesnina of Russia.

The unseeded Indo-Russian duo had pulled off a big upset by ousting second seeds and strong contenders Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymonds with a straight-set win in the first round.

In the doubles quarter-finals, they will take on the Russian-Australian combination of Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Rodionova.