India's Sania Mirza on Friday lost her women’s doubles semifinal match to exit the US Open.
Mirza, along with her Chinese partner Shuai Peng lost in straight sets to the second seeded pair of Martina Hingis and Yung-Jan Chan 6-4, 6-4.
The Indo-Chinese duo of Mirza and Peng were in the ascendancy early in the first set after they broke Hingis-Chan in the second game and attained a 3-0 lead. But the Taiwanese-Swiss pair fought back and drew level at 3-3.
By breaking Mirza-Peng in the ninth game, their opponents sealed the first set.
In the second set, the fourth-seeded pair of Mirza and Peng again got the first break, in the fourth game, only to be broken back in the next game. Just like the first set, Hingis and Chan achieved a break in the crucial ninth game to seal the match and book their spot in the Final.
On Thursday, Mirza had reached her first Grand Slam semifinal of the 2017 season with Shuai Peng after edging past Timea Babos and Andrea Hlavackova in a close two-set battle at the US Open, here.
The fourth seeded Indo-Chinese pair dispatched the fifth seed Hungarian-Czech combo 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the quarter-final which lasted one hour and 56 minutes.
It is season's best performance for Sania at the majors as she fell in the third rounds of the Australian Open and the Wimbledon while at the French Open she had made a first round exit.