Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova suffered a straight-set loss against Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova in the summit clash of the WTA Wuhan Open, here today.The third seeds lost 1-6 4-6 to the fifth seeded US-Czech pair of Mattek-Sands and Safarova in the final that lasted a little over an hour.
Mattek-Sands and Safarova converted six of their eight break points, while the Indo-Czech pair squandered six out of eight.
Sania has won three titles in her last four tournaments after splitting with Martina Hingis.