Sania Mirza won her first WTA Tour title of the season, clinching the doubles crown at the Morocco Open with American Vania King.
The Indo-US pair got a walkover in the semi-finals, as their opponents, Camille Pin and Milagros Sequera, pulled out because of illness.
The Indo-US pair beat the French-Venezuelan combination of Camille Pin and Milagros Sequera for a place in the final of the US $145,000 Tier IV Morocco Open.
Second seed Sania Mirza and Vania King suffered a shock straight-set defeat at the hands of unseeded French pair of Julie Coin and Mathilde to crash out of the doubles event of the Japan Open in Tokyo on Thursday.
Sania Mirza qualified for the singles main draw of the Family Circle Cup, a WTA event, after scoring a straight sets win over Ukraine's Olga Savchuk.
Caroline Wozniacki and Justine Henin barely broke sweat as they swept into the third round of the Australian Open in the first hour's play on another cool morning at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.
Romanian teenager Sorana Cirstea upset third seed Anna Chakvetadze 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 in the second round of the Family Circle Cup.
American top seeds Liezel Huber and Bob Bryan claimed the mixed doubles title at the French Open on Thursday.
American wildcard Vania King came from a set down to beat Anne Kremer in the Pacific Life Open first round.
Serena Williams will try to take a step closer to history on Saturday when she plays her third-round match at the US Open.
After 17 trips to Flushing Meadows and six US Open titles Serena Williams did something on Thursday she had never done before -- win a match indoors.
The second seeds pipped the American-Russian duo of Vania King and Alla Kudryavtseva 6-3, 6-4 in the first round.
Sania Mirza staged a strong recovery after losing the first set to beat Alison Riske of the United States and enter the second round of the Family Circle Cup on Monday. The Indian ace won 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 and set up a meeting with Vania King of the United States.
Making a comeback after a two-year hiatus, she enters women's doubles quarter-finals of Hobart International.
Top seed Amelie Mauresmo and third seed Maria Sharapova also marched on with straight-sets victories at the US Open.\n
Defending champions Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis crashed out of the Indian Wells Masters after suffering a shock straight sets defeat in the women's doubles event, in California, on Monday.
Kim Clijsters powered Belgium into their second Fed Cup final with a comfortable 6-0, 6-1 win over American teenager Vania King.
Sania Mirza continued her winning run as she entered the women's doubles semifinals of the Hobart International
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Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis breezed into the women's third round with a 6-3, 6-1 win over the Japanese pairing of Eri Hozumi and Miyu Kato at the Wimbledon championships on Sunday.
Zhang Shuai was aware of the risks involved when she opted to "Fly Alone" two months ago but the 24-year-old Chinese now stands vindicated after winning her maiden WTA Tour title on Saturday.
Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis entered the final at the Madrid Open after a crushing 6-2, 6-0 victory over Vania King and Alla Kudryavtseva on Friday. It is the second successive final for the Indo-Swiss pair following the runners-up finish in Stuttgart.
Former World No 1 Ana Ivanovic was upset 7-5, 6-4 by 42nd-ranked Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in the second round of the US Open on Thursday.
Serena Williams started her quest to join Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova in joint fourth place on the career Grand Slam list with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over 18-year-old fellow American Taylor Townsend at the US Open on Tuesday.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza received a confidence booster ahead of the US Open Grand Slam tournament beginning, on Monday, with a doubles title victory at the Connecticut Open with Monica Niculescu of Romania, in New Haven, USA.
The Maria Sharapova-Jimmy Connors partnership got off to a rocky start on Tuesday as Sloane Stephens shocked the third ranked Russian 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-3 at the Western and Southern Open.
World No 1 Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams advanced safely to the next round of the US Open on Saturday but the women's draw saw yet another big upset as Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova was sent packing by a 145th-ranked qualifier.
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