So, it will be Su-Wei Hsieh and Monica Niculescu taking on second seeds Martina Hingis and Yung-Jan Chan in the final of the women's doubles at the Cincinnati Masters.
The match ends in straight sets but it was a close encounter through and through. The fourth seeds will be disappointed to have missed out on two set points in the second-set tiebreak.
And we're headed into a tiebreak! Mirza-Peng had two break point opportunities at 15-40 but they were unable to make most of it. The unseeded duo hold their nerve to take the set to a tiebreak.
In the last game of the set, the unseeded duo race into a 40-0 lead. The set point is saved twice but Mirza/Peng cannot succeed the third time! First set ends 6-4!
The first semifinal has ended and it is the Hingis-Chan pair that enters the final. They recorded a straight-set win over the Czech pair and won 7-6 6-2.
Hello and welcome to Sportskeeda's coverage of the Cincinnati Masters tournament. In this game, we bring to you the women's doubles semifinal that will feature India's Sania Mirza and China's Shuai Peng taken the pairing of Hsieh Su-wei from Taiwan and Monica Niculescu of Romania.
The Indo-China pair is seeded fourth in the competition while their opponents are unseeded. In their previous encounter in the Top 8, they had defeated the Romanian team of Irina-Camelia Begu and Raluca Olaru, who were also unseeded, by a scoreline of 6-3 6(1)-7 10-3 to enter the semis.
The other semifinal is underway and features the second and third seeds go head-to-head. The duo of Martina Hingis and Y. Chan is up against the Czech pairing of Barbara Strycova and Lucie Safarova. Stay tuned as we bring to you the latest updates from the second semifinal!