Sania Mirza, Barbora Strycova lose Sydney final

India’s Sania Mirza and her partner Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic lost to Hungary’s Timea Babos and Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final of the Apia International in Sydney on Friday.

The Indo-Czech pair suffered a straight-set defeat 4-6, 4-6 at the hands of Timea Babos of Hungary and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in the summit clash.