Sania Mirza beat Crotia's Karolina Sprem 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the US Open.
Indian ace Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black ended the season and their partnership on a remarkable high by clinching the WTA finals women's doubles title with a comprehensive triumph in the summit clash in Singapore.
The 21-year-old Indian ace was beaten in the second round by Spain's Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez at Wimbledon on Thursday. After staging a remarkable fightback in the second set, Sania lost 0-6, 6-4, 7-9 to the world number 101 in two hours and eight minutes.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza squandered a one-set lead before crashing out of the $220,000 Pattaya Open with a first-round loss to German Tatjana Malek in Pattaya on Wednesday.
Sania Mirza and Anabel Medina Garrigues beat Ekaterina Bychkova and Martina Muller 6-3, 6-4 in the second round.
Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek stunned formidable Taipei duo of Yung-Jan Chan and Chia-Jung Chuang to book a doubles semi-final berth at the US $ 2,100,000 Pacific Life Open WTA championships in Indian Wells. The Indo-US combine prevailed 7-5, 4-6, 11-9 in a gruelling quarter-final encounter of the Tier I event, on Wednesday night.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Friday flayed tennis star Sania Mirza for her decision to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, saying "had Sania's heart been Indian, it wouldn't have beaten for a Pakistani."
Sania Mirza and her Italian partner Francesca Schiavone, seeded 14th, survived a scare from unseeded Ekaterina Dzehalevich of Belarus and Czech Renata Voracova before recording a 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 win to advance to the women's doubles second round.
Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina suffered a crushing 2-6, 1-6 defeat against top seeds Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond to end runners-up at the WTA Dubai Open.
Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Martina Hingis were ousted from the Rogers Cup after the top seeds suffered a straight sets loss to Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik in Toronto on Saturday.
Sania Mirza lost in the first round of her doubles match on Wednesday.
The Indian duo beat France's Nathalie Dechyand Andy Ram of Israel 6-4, 6-2 in the semi-final.
The 31st-seed Indian registered a hardfought 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 victory against Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky at the Australian Open.
Controversies are affecting the Indian ace's performance, AITA Secretary General Anil Khanna said.
Indian tennis stars Leander Paes, Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna made a rampaging start to their campaign at US Open as they advanced to the second round of the US Open along with their respective partners after notching up contrasting wins at Flushing Meadows, in New York.
Top seed Jelena Jankovic and Venus Williams expressed disappointment with Sania Mirza's withdrawal from the Tier II Bangalore Open.
The Indian ace had trouble returning Sharapova's serves and watched the Russian tear apart her second serve in the quarter-finals of the San Diego Classic.
Indian badminton legend Prakash Padukone feels Saina Nehwal has achieved more than Sania Mirza vis--vis performance because of the fact that she has beaten more higher-ranked players than the tennis ace.
The Indian doubles ace said the AITA preferred the pairing for the Asian Games as it felt they have a good chance of winning the gold medal.
The Indian ace would miss the women's team event as she is recuperating from an ankle injury
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Sania Mirza and her American doubles partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands progressed to the semi-finals of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix after registering a straight sets win over Liezel Huber and Janette Husarova in Stuttgart.
Sania Mirza and her Spanish partner Nuria Llagostera Vives entered the second round of Kremlin Cup after a hard-fought victory over Darya Kustova of Belarus and Ukraine's Olga Savchuk in Moscow on Tuesday.
The Indian ace beat Australia's Casey Dell'Acqua 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in the second round.
Her prospective groom is facing allegations of marrying and dumping a woman, but Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza backed Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik on the matter, saying that she and her family have known the truth all along.
Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis progressed through to the quarter-finals of the Italian Open with a straight sets victory in the women's doubles event in Rome.
The Indian lost 6-1, 7-6 to France's Virginie Razzano in the third round in Los Angeles.
The Indian ace beat qualifier Alesandra Wozniak 6-3, 6-2 to set up a second round clash with Martina Hingis.
The Indian pair of Sania Mirza and Prarthana Thombare settled for a bronze after losing their women's doubles semi-final to Chinese Taipei's Chin Wei Chan and Su Wei Hsiehin in the Asian Games, in Incheon on Sunday.
Tennis player Prarthana Thombare, who will partner India ace Sania Mirza in the Olympics, says she is not scared of facing the big names at Rio Games as she has the World No. 1 beside her.
'I will make the final decision on Sunday, Monday or on the morning I'm scheduled to play,' the Indian tennis ace said.
The Indian ace and Spaniard Virginia Ruano Pascual, seeded seventh, lost 3-6, 3-6 to the unseeded Chinese combination of Jie Zheng and Yung-Jan Chan in the first round. Sania bowed out of the singles on Monday.
The Indo- South African pair shocked second seeds Virginia Ruano Pascual of\nSpain and American Meghann Shaughnessy in the semi-finals of the Bausch and Lomb Championships.
The timing of a Grand Slam title victory could not have been better for Sania Mirza, who is desperately seeking a wild card entry into the London Olympics, which in all probability is her last chance to become an Olympic medal winner.
There was simply no end to Sania Mirza's misery in the WTA Bank of the West Classic tennis tournament as after her misadventure in the singles event, the Indian ace made a first round exit from doubles as well. Sania and her Russian partner Anna Chakvetadze were brushed aside by the unheralded Czech pair of Eva Hrdinova and Vladimira Uhlirova 6-3 6-4 in the Tier II event in Stanford.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza crashed out in the first round of the women's singles at Wimbledon after slumping to a straight set defeat against Angelique Kerber of Germany on Monday. The 113-ranked Sania, who is making a comeback to the courts after a three-month injury lay-off, lost 4-6, 1-6 to the 55-ranked Kerber in little more than an hour.
Sania Mirza and her partner Bethanie Mattek Sands progressed to the third round of the women's doubles event with a three-set win over American pair of Lauren Davis and Megan Moulton-Levy in Paris.
Leander Paes and Meghann Shaughnessy survived a scare but Sania Mirza and Fabrice Santoro were knocked out of the mixed doubles at the French Open.
They have not played together after winning a bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games but Rushmi Chakravarthi feels she and Sania Mirza have enough individual experience behind them to again gel well as a team at the upcoming London Olympics.
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