Sania crashes out of Taskhent Open

India's Sania Mirza crashed out of the Taskhent Open after she lost to Olga Poutchkova of Russia 4-6, 6-4, 0-6 in the quarterfinals Friday.

It was another inconsistent performance by the Indian, who later said, she could not adjust to the conditions.

"Sometimes you don't get used to the conditions and then you don't win," said Sania, rather disappointedly.

"The balls were flying, I just didn't get to feel the ball on my racquet.

"There were some 20-25 times in the match when I wanted to go for a winner but I didn't have the confidence to go for it, I just kept pushing the ball back," she added.

After losing the first set hitting wide with an inside-out backhand at set point, Sania slumped to a 0-4 deficit in the second. Poutchkova, semi-finalist at the recent Sunfeast Open in Kolkata, then double-faulted three times to drop serve in the next game.

That triggered a Sania revival for a while and she won the next five games to take the set. During the six-game winning streak, she seemed to have regained some confidence and the winners flowed from her racquet.

The Russian won key points in the early games of the third set. Sania down 15-40 after a double fault, rallied to deuce in the second game, but could not hold her serve.

The 19-year-old Indian finally lost hope of winning, as she was down 0-40 in the fourth game. She was again broken and went 4-0 down in the set.