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The third-seeded pair of Sania Mirza and her partner Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic advanced to the doubles final of the Wuhan Open, winning their quarter-final and semi-final matches, both of which were played in Wuhan, China on Friday. While they beat sixth-seeds Timea Babos of Hungary and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 7-6 [7-5] in the early evening session, their semi-finals win by a score of 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 came in an hour and 26 minutes against?the second-seeded pair of Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chin of Chinese Taipei a few hours later.Sania and Strycova lost serve three times in the opening set, but broke four times to take the first set in just 27 minutes in their semi-final.?The second set saw the higher-ranked Chan sisters break their opponents early on, and they maintained that lead to open up a 4-2 lead in the process. Though Sania and Strycova broke back, they would drop serve immediately afterwards, and the set was wrapped up by the Chinese Taipei pair in a little over half an hour.?Sania and Strycova tried their best to keep pace with their opponents in the 10-point tie-breaker in the final set, despite trailing 3-1 and 4-3 at different stages. They were able to win five of the last seven points played to wrap up the match on the very first match point they got.Earlier in their quarter-final, Sania and Strycova were the first to break serve in the first set, taking a 2-0 lead in the process. Both teams then traded a break apiece over the next two games, before the Indo-Czech pair held to go 4-1 up. There were no further service breaks, as Sania and Strycova won the first set 6-3 in 27 minutes.After the second set began with two service holds, Babos and Shvedova were broken again to give the third seeds a 2-1 advantage. But they broke their opponents immediately to restore parity. Sania and Strycova broke serve in the seventh game, however, and then had their first four match points with their opponents 0-40 down at 3-5 in the second set. Babos and Shvedova came back to hold, and then faced another match point as their opponents looked to close out the match on serve, but broke back to make it 5-5. Serving at 6-5 down, this time Sania and Strycova had to save three set points to take the second set into a tiebreak, which they won 7-5 to take the second set in 53 minutes.Sania will defend her doubles title at this event, which she won alongside Martina Hingis in 2015, against fifth-seeds American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova of Czech Republic in the final.Sania and Strycova have already won two out of three events entered since coming together after the Rio Olympics in August, with their most-recent title coming in Tokyo last weekend. Custom Detroit Tigers Jerseys . Once again Jordan Cieciwa (@FitCityJordan) and I (@LynchOnSports) go head to head in our picks. Last weekend at UFC Fight Night 32 my #TeamLynch got the best of #TeamJC by a score of 9-6. Let us know which side youre on for UFC 167 use the hashtag #TeamLynch or #TeamJC on Twitter. Custom San Diego Padres Jerseys . Takahashi, who had a 10-point lead after the short program, received 268.31 points after the free skate to finish 15 points ahead of second-place Nobunari Oda. http://www.customjerseysbaseball.com/custom-los-angeles-angels-jerseys-424x.html . "I was fortunate to play many years at this level with a great organization and unbelievable teammates," said Hejduk in a statement. Custom Miami Marlins Jerseys . Jordan Lynch, the all-purpose Heisman Trophy finalist from Northern Illinois, failed to make it into that exclusive club. Custom Arizona Diamondbacks Jerseys . -- Lou Brocks shoulder-to-shoulder collision with Bill Freehan during the 1968 World Series and Pete Roses bruising hit on Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star game could become relics of baseball history, like the dead-ball era. MIAMI -- Fernando Rodney is a free agent after the Miami Marlins declined his $2 million option, choosing instead to pay a $400,000 buyout.The 39-year-old reliever had a 5.89 ERA and eight saves in 39 games after being acquired by the Marlins in a June trade with San Diego for minor league right-hander Chris Paddack..ddddddddddddodney made his third All-Star team this season and finished 2-4 with a 3.44 ERA and 25 saves. The right-hander has 261 career saves and a 3.69 ERA in 14 major league seasons. ' ' '