Renowned fitness trainer Gil Reyes, who has worked with top stars like Ana Ivanovic and Fernando Verdasco, on Monday lauded Sania Mirza's 'athleticism' after working for one week with the Indian tennis ace. Sania, who missed India's Fed cup campaign due to an abdominal injury after winning her career's first Grand Slam mixed doubles title at the Australian Open, trained with Reynes at his training centre in Las Vegas.
Sania lost to third-seed Sesil Karatantcheva of Bulgaria in the finals of the Bernstein Tennis Tournament.
The unseeded Russian staged a grand rally to shock the second seeded Indian ace in the quarter-finals of the WTA Bangalore Open.
The Indian ace scored a grand double winning the singles and doubles titles at the US $25,000 ITF women's tournament in Nigeria.
After over a week's drama, which ended in Shoaib divorcing Ayesha Siddiqui, the Hyderabad girl he denied ever marrying, Sania's family sprung a surprise by advancing the nikaah (marriage ceremony) to Friday evening, though no official announcement was made. However, it is now learnt that the nikaah will not take place on Friday, after all.
Legendary Rafael Nadal was at his energetic best in his two wins as rampaging Indian Aces continued their sparkling run in the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) with a 30-12 rout of the Philippines Mavervicks, on the opening day of the Indian leg of the event.
India's focus on day eight will be centered around tennis mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna who are to take on the US pair of Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram, on Saturday night, in the semi-finals at the Rio Olympics.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black were halted in their stride by the world No 1 Italian pair of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci in the women's doubles quarter-finals at the Australian Open in Mlebourne on Tuesday. The sixth seeds lost 2-6, 6-3, 4-6.
They beat the American pair of Angela Haynes and Neha Uberoi in the first round of the women's doubles at the US Open.\n
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis continued their domination in the women's doubles by winning the U.S. Open crown, their second Grand Slam of the season, after a crushing victory over Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova, in New York.
The former made it to the second round in the girls' doubles while the latter couldn't.
India's tennis stars enjoyed comfortable wins in the Australian Open on Thursday as Sania Mirza eased into the second round with partner Martina Hingis while Rohan Bopanna also registered a straight sets victory in the men's doubles first round.
The Indo-Serbian pair lost to eighth seeds Shinobu Asagoe and Katarina Srebotnik at the Nasdaq-100 Open.
The fifth-seeded Indian ace beat Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in the second round.
The Indo-French pair lost their doubles quarter-final in the WTA Indian Open.
Sania Mirza beat Tetiana Luzhanska of Belarus to make the grade at the ITF Women's World Ranking tournament.
Mirza and Huber spanked Australia's Casey Dellacqua and US-citizen of Indian origin Sunitha Rao 6-1, 6-4.
Fourth seed Sania Mirza entered the singles quarter-finals, but teammate Shikha Uberoi retired from the tennis event due to exhaustion.
Sania Mirza shocked fifth seed Flavia Pennetta in straight sets to advance to the second round of the Ordina Open in s'Hertogenbosh, Netherlands on Monday. Sania shrugged off her disappointing first match loss at the DFS Classic last week and went all out against her Italian opponent to register a convincing 6-4, 6-3 win in one hour and 12 minutes in the first round.
"I am not happy with my performance, because I did a lot of mistakes," Sania said at the post-match media meet.
Sania Mirza conceded her first round singles match of the qualifying event of the USD 600,000 Aegon International in Eastbourne after suffering a hip-strain.
Sanjay Manjrekar loves to court controversy. Or so it seems. After taking a dig at the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on Twitter on Tuesday, the former India batsman took a swipe at tennis ace Sania Mirza.
The duo of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis sailed into the 10th final of the year at the Women's Tennis Association's (WTA) Finals after beating Chinese Taipei's Chan Hao-Ching and Chan Yung-Jan in straight sets, in Singapore, on Saturday.
Patty Schnyder admitted that she found it difficult to read Sania's game during their quarterfinal at Cincinnati.
Clearly contradicting his father's stand on Tennis player Sania Mirza marrying Shoaib Malik, Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said that it was the tennis player's personal decision to marry Shoaib.
Sania Mirza had no qualms in admitting that she and Horia Tecau were 'outplayed' in the Australian Open mixed doubles final, but said she had a great tournament and lost only to the best teams in the two events she participated in.
As tennis raise hopes of an Indian medal at the Rip Olympics, Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com put things in perspective.
The Indian ace beat Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko in straight sets to advance to the main draw of the Acura Classic.
Tennis ace Leander Paes on Monday assured himself of a berth in the London Olympics by retaining his position in the top-10 in the latest ATP doubles rankings, but Sania Mirza's fate continued to hang in balance.
Sania Mirza won her first title of the season and 23rd of her career when she and Bethanie Mattek-Sands shocked top-seeded Americans Abigail Spears and Raquel Kops-Jones in the summit clash of the Apia International in Sydney on Friday.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza, making a comeback from a wrist injury, went down fighting against her nemesis Ana Chakvetadze, resulting in team Asia-Pacific's 0-2 defeat against Team Russia at World Team Challenge tournament in Hong Kong on Thursday.
Sania Mirza lost her Wimbledon second round singles match against Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Capping off a great day for India, Sania Mirza advanced to the third round of both the women's and mixed doubles events, while Rohan Bopanna and Purav Raja also won their respective mixed doubles matches at the Wimbledon in London.
Sania Mirza and her American doubles partner, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, made an early exit from the Madrid Open after losing their second round match in straight sets to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova.
Sania Mirza won on Sunday won her ninth WTA doubles title when she triumphed at the Guangzhou International Women's Open along with Romanian partner Edina Gallovits.
The Indo-American duo beat Janette Husarova and Michaella Krajicek 6-3, 2-6, 11-9 in the first round.
The Indian had made the first round exit at the Tier I tournament at Key Biscayne in Miami last week.
They beat David Skoch of Czech Republic and Janette Husarova of Slovakia in their first round match at Wimbledon.
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