Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang fought valiantly but lost a tough semi-final battle to crash out of the Madrid Open. The Hyderabadi-Chinese pair went down in straight sets against third seeds Kveta Peschke and Lisa Raymod.

The unseeded Indo-Taipei pair pushed their opponents to limits before losing 6-7 (4), 4-6 to the Czech-American pair in one hour and 26 minutes, last night.