They beat Amanmuradova and Poutchek in the opening round of the Bangalore 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.
The Indian ace was beaten by Argentine Gisela Dulko in the semi-finals of the WTA Tour event in Pattaya.
Sania and her American partner Bethanie-Mattek Sands shocked second seeds Martina Hingis and Flavia Penneta, winning 6-3, 6-3 in the quarter-finals of Apia International. Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor beat the Italian pair of Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini.
After her narrow 7-6, 6-4 defeat by Venus Williams in the Australian Open third round on Saturday, the Indian ace expressed disappointment, lamenting she paid the price for failing to take her chances.
The Indian ace and Italy's Mara Santangelo got the better of Neha and Shikha Uberoi 6-3, 6-1 at the Bangalore Open.
Sania Mirza and Yuliana Fedak ousted Sybille Bammer and Jewel Peterson 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 in the first round at Cincinnati
Sania Mirza kept the Indian hopes alive by progressing to the women's doubles quarter-finals of ATP-WTA Sony Open in Miami.
The Indian ace's involvement in the Australian Open ended after defeats in the women's doubles and mixed doubles on Monday.
The Indian ace defeated Bardina of Russia in straight sets in the US $25,000 ITF women's tournament in Lagos, Nigeria.
Australian Open winners Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek saw off stiff resistance from Juan Monaco and Kei Nishikori to advance to the quarter-finals of the ATP Indian Wells Masters. The seventh-seeded Indo-Czech pair beat their unseeded opponents 7-6(5), 6-4 in a second round match.
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Somdev Devvarman's stay in the top-100 lasted just a week, as the Indian suffered a huge loss of 15 positions to find himself at 111th spot in the latest ATP rankings. In the WTA rankings, Sania Mirza's slide continued, The Indian ace found herself at No 153 after a loss of 15 places.
India's Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau stormed into the semifinals of the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open with straight sets victory over Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Julia Georges, in Melbourne on Thursday.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic entered the semifinals in men's doubles while another Indian Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau lost 5-7, 3-6 to the 10th-seeded British-Australian pair of Jamie Murray and Casey Dellacqua in the mixed doubles pre-quarters at the Wimbledon Championships in London on Thursday.
The Indian ace will 20-year-old Pauline Parmentier of France in her first round match.
Sania Mirza will have to wait till Tuesday to start her Australian Open campaign as rains forced postponement of her first round match in Melbourne on Monday.
Police registered a case of trespass against Sania Mirza for filming for an advert in the premises of a mosque.
It was a disappointing day for India at Wimbledon as Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles and Mahesh Bhupathi exited the mixed doubles event after second round defeats.
Sania Mirza's preparation for the Australian Open suffered a setback as she crashed out of the WTA Hobart International after losing a hard-fought first round match to wild card Alicia Molik in Hobart on Monday.
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The hype around tennis ace Sania Mirza may be bigger but ace shuttler Saina Nehwal clearly has the edge in terms of performance, feels badminton legend Prakash Padukone.
After endorsing Lotto, Malabar Gold and HPCL, tennis star Sania Mirza has been roped in by Tata Indicom with the launch of a limited edition of 'Signature Series' of handset called 'Sania Fone'.
Sania Mirza could not cross the final hurdle as she missed out on making the singles main draw of the Miami WTA Premier event after losing in straight sets to American 10th seed Sloane Stephens.
The Indian tennis ace won the US $10,000 Regione House ITF clay tournament in Italy beating Mihalache Magda of Romania 6-3, 6-4 in the final.
Sania Mirza and Somdev Devvarman would look to improve their Grand Slam singles records even as veterans Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi eye their first major title together after rejoining forces when the Wimbledon Tennis championships start in London on Monday.
However, the Indian ace and her partner South African Liezel Huber, entered the doubles quarter-finals of the Acura Classic.
Ahmad Siddiqui, father of Ayesha, allegedly Shoiab's first wife, has threatened legal action against Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik if he does not give his daughter a divorce.
The two have been spotted together at a few dos and have been putting up loved up pictures with each other on their social media pages.
Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina crashed out of the Qatar Open, losing in 4-6, 4-6 to Vera Dushevina and Shahar Peer.
The media report alleging that Shoaib Malik was left out of the Pakistan cricket team for roaming around London with wife Sania Mirza at the cost of practice sessions has left the family of the tennis player upset.
The Indian ace beat Katarina Srebotnik 6-3, 7-6 to set up a third round clash with Elena Dementieva.
Both Balaji and Bhambri have got some decent results on clay in lead up to the Roland Garros, where the action will unfold during the Summer Olympics from July 27.
The top seeded pair of Sania Mirza and Yaroslava Shvedova stormed into the doubles semi-finals in the US $220,000 Citi Open, beating Lindsay Lee-Waters and Megan Moulton-Levy in straight sets, at College Park, United States, on Friday. The Indo-Kazakh pair won 6-3, 6-4.
She will face the Serbian in the first round of Cincinnati Open in Ohio on Monday.
India's top doubles players Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna were dumped from the US Open men's doubles competition even as Sania Mirza progressed in the mixed doubles event with her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig.
Sania Mirza has jumped up by 34 points to move to a career-best 132 in the latest WTA Tour tennis rankings.
Former pacer Shoaib Akhtar has come to the defence of Sania Mirza, saying the Indian tennis star is unlucky to find herself in the firing line of fans every time arch-rivals India and Pakistan play an international match. Sania is married to former skipper Shoaib Malik, who is currently a part of Pakistan's cricket team competing in the ongoing World Cup in England.
They shocked seventh seeds Elena Likhovtseva and Daniel Nestor in straight sets to advance to the second round of the US Open.
Sania Mirza and Chinese Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang overcame a late fightback from second seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain to storm into the semi-finals of the $4,500,000 Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament in Miami on Wednesday. The Indo-Taiwanese pair won 6-3, 7-6(4).
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