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. Nike Dunk Low China .C. -- Manny Malhotra had two goals and an assist, leading the Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday. Nike Dunk High Cheap . LOUIS -- The New Orleans Saints looked like a team playing out the string. http://www.nikedunkscheap.com/nike-dunk-sb-shoes/high.html . Vettel, who has already clinched his fourth straight F1 title, enters the finale with a chance to equal Michael Schumachers 13 victories in a year and match the record of nine consecutive wins by Alberto Ascari in the 1952 and 1953 seasons. Cheap Nike Dunk Shoes .com) - The Pittsburgh Penguins placed forward James Neal on injured reserve Tuesday. Nike Dunks Clearance .C. -- Todd Fiddler scored a hat trick, including the overtime goal, as the Prince George Cougars survived an 8-7 win against the Kamloops Blazers in Western Hockey League play Sunday. NEWARK, N.J. -- Mike Foligno has joined the New Jersey Devils as an assistant coach. General manager Lou Lamoriello announced the appointment to Pete DeBoers staff Friday. Foligno replaces Matt Shaw, who left to become head coach of Dubuque in the USHL. Foligno spent last season as an assistant coach with the Chicago Wolves in the AHL. He had been an assistaant with Anaheim, Colorado and Toronto in the NHL.dddddddddddd The 54-year-old has head coaching experience with the Sudbury Wolves of the OHL and Colorados AHL affiliate in Hershey. Foligno, who played 15 seasons in the NHL with Detroit, Buffalo, Toronto and Florida, began his professional coaching career with St. Johns in the AHL in 1995-96. ' ' '