Melbourne, Jan 23 (PTI): Indian ace Sania Mirza and her Cheinese Taipei partner Su-Wei Hsieh were served out early in the women’s doubles encounter after the second-seeded duo was stunned by Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska in Round 2 of the Australian Open, in Melbourne on Friday.

Struggling to find her rhythm from the start, Sania, who recently reached her career best doubles ranking of No. 5 for the second time, looked out of sorts and failed to combine with Hsieh as they went down 7-6, 6-4 against the unseeded Canadian-Polish pair.

Sania and Hsieh, who had an easy first outing against the Argentine-Swiss combine of Maria Irigoyen and Romina Oprandi in the opening round were up against a resilient Gabriela and Alicja this time around.

Fighting hard for the first set, Sania and Hsieh finally went down in tie break after an intense 58-minute battle.

Their relatively inexperienced opponents then gained confidence to bring up an authoritative brand of play in the second set to comfortably dispatch the much fancied pair.