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 yet again failed to move beyond the first round of a WTA tournament and crashed out of the USD two million Dubai Tennis Championships following her 3-6, 4-6 defeat against Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues in Dubai on Monday.
The Indian ace frittered away the advantage of winning the first set and lost to the fourth seed at the Pacific Life Open.
India's Sania Mirza and Zimbabwe's Cara Black entered the final of the WTA China Open, shocking top seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-4, 6-4 on Friday. In doing do they extended their unbeaten run to eight matches, and Sania put herself in line for her fifth title of the season.
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.
The Indo-South African pair lost to Mashona Washington and Tathiana Garbin in the doubles quarter-finals at the WTA Tier II tournament in Paris.
She along with Liezel Huber registered a straight-set victory in the women's doubles first round in France.
The Indian ace, who made it to the main draw of the Family Circle Cup through the qualifying rounds, won the first set 6-2, but failed to sustain the pace in the next two sets, which she lost 2-6, 2-6.
Indian qualifier Sania Mirza edged past Vania King in a three-set battle to book a pre-quarterfinal berth in the WTA Family Circle Cup in Charleston, USA.
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Sania Mirza won her second WTA doubles title of the season and 14th overall, when she combined with Bethanie Mattek-Sands to lift Brussels Open trophy with an emphatic straight set win over Alicja Rosolska of Poland and China's Zheng Jie.
The 19-year old Indian and Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat Italy's Maria Elena Camerin and Tathiana Garbin at the Nasdaq 100 Open.
Sania Mirza and Edina Gallovits stunned fourth seeds Anna Smith and Zi Yan in straight sets to progress to the doubles semi-finals of the Guangzhou International Women's Open in Guangzhou, China.
Sania Mirza overcame a stuttering start before packing off Russian qualifier Vera Dushevina 7-6 (5), 6-2 in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships.
The Indian ace won her first round singles and doubles matches at the Thailand Open.
Mirza next plays Hana Sromova of the Czech Republic at the Tashkent Open.
The India ace will meet the Ukraine lass in final qualifying round of the Acura Classic tennis tournament in San Diego.
Sania Mirza entered the main draw after Chanda Rubin pulled out with an ankle inflammation at the WTA event.
The Indian teenager will take on seventh seed Anna-Lena Groenefeld at the USD 170,000 Cincinnati Open.
The Indian ace made the last 16 in the Chris Evert ITF women's tournament in the US.
The seventh seeds beat Tatiana Poutchek and Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 4-6, 10-7 to enter the doubles quarterfinals at Indian Wells.
Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, who pulled out of the women's team championship due to throat and ear infection and is under medication, will take part in the singles and mixed doubles individual events in the Asian Games in Guangzhou.
The Indian ace registered an easy 6-2, 6-1 victory over Italy's Roberta Vinci at the Forest Hills Women's Tennis Classic.
The third seeded Indian beat Israel's Shahar Peer 7-6, 6-1 at the Forest Hills Women's Classic in New York.
Top seed Sania Mirza quelled a late challenge from American wildcard Laura Granville to enter the quarter-finals of the US $75,000 ITF Vancuover Open on Thursday.
On a mixed day for the Indians, Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the men's doubles second round but Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles event at the US $ 4.5 million BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells. Sania and her partner Chia-Jung Chuang of Taipei went down 1-6, 4-6 to the Argentine-Israeli team of Gisela Dulko and Shahar Peer in the opening round.
The Indian duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are seeded third in the men's doubles, while compatriot Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, who picked their second ATP title at Halle, Germany, last week, are seeded fourth in the grass-court tournament.
Sania Mirza and Alicia Molik drubbed Jelena Kostanic and Angelique Widjaja 6-3, 6-3 in Istanbul
Disclosing her non-participation in the week-long tournament, beginning March 3, Tournament Director R Sunder Raju said no reason had been ascribed by the Indian ace for not participating.
Somdev Devvarman and Sania Mirza notched up a rare double for India at the US Open by advancing to the second round of the season's last Grand Slam with contrasting opening wins at the Flushing Meadows hardcourts.
Sania Mirza improved her singles ranking by three places as she moved to number 127 even as she maintained her impressive seventh rank in the doubles in the latest WTA charts.
It pays to be a teenage sensation. Sania Mirza's irresistible glamour and popularity seems to have become a problem as another stalker tried to barge into her posh Hyderabad residence, seeking marital bliss with her.
The Indian ace was called in to speak about 'Influencing Public Policy -The Role of the Celebrity'
Indian cricket physio John Gloster had a look at the ankle injury of the tennis ace, who figures in the main draw of the French Open.
Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek sailed into the third round of Wimbledon women's doubles event after a comfortable straight-set win over Russian-Italian pair of Maria Kirilenko and Flavia Pennetta on Saturday.
Indians had a reasonably good day in the Wimbledon doubles' competition with Leander Paes and Sania Mirza winning their respective matches but it was curtains for Mahesh Bhupathi, who was sent packing in the first round itself. Paes, partnering Czech Lukas Dlouhy, advanced to the third round with a 6-3, 7-6(3), 6-3 win over the combination of American Eric Butorac and Australian Ashley Fisher last night.
India's Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina on Thursday advanced to the women's doubles semifinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships with a hard-fought victory over Maria-Jose Matrinez Sanchez and Shahar Peer in Dubai.
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