Forced to go through the qualifiers to compete in the US Open due to low ranking, Sania Mirza has been drawn against Russian Ksenia Lykina as her first round opponent.
India's Sania Mirza lost 5-7, 6-1, 3-6 to Flavia Pennetta in the quarterfinal of the Hobart International WTA.
Security concerns and the blow hot blow cold diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan are the reasons why Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik have decided to shift base to Dubai after they get married next month.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Thursday hit out at politicians for raising objections to her being appointed as Telangana's brand ambassador, saying that her family had been staying in Hyderabad for more than a century and to call her an outsider was condemnable.
The Indian pair maintained their unbeaten run to tame Australia's Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak in the mixed doubles encounter to pull off their first win in group 'A' of the Hopman Cup in Perth on Wednesday.
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 Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad said it was not aware of any threat being issued to one of its doctors, who treated tennis star Sania Mirza.
Sania Mirza and Cara Black cruised past Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears in just 52 minutes to seal a semi-final berth at the WTA Rogers Cup, in Montreal.
The signing follows the Hyderabad girl's decision last week to come out of the All India Tennis Association's sponsorship and pursue corporate patronage.
After mauling lower-ranked opponents all through the week, Sania Mirza lost the title clash of the Wrexham ITF event 2-6, 4-6 to local favourite Heather Watson on Sunday.
Sania Mirza and Liezel Huber went down 6-2, 7-5 against Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Meghann Shaughnessy.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza said it's an honour to team up with 18 time Grand Slam winner Bob Bryan in the mixed doubles of the 2013 Australian Open.
The third seeds beat the Chinese-Uzbek pair of Meng Yuan and Varvara Lepchenko in the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Open.
Sania Mirza was leading 6-1, 2-0 when Alexandra Stevenson retired with a right shoulder strain.
Sania Mirza and Marta Domachowska beat Natalie Grandin and Milagros Sequera 6-4, 6-3 in the first round in Cincinnati
Congratulating tennis stars Sania Mirza and Leander Paes, who won Grand Slams in the women's doubles and mixed doubles respectively at the US Open, former India cricket captain Rahul Dravid on Monday said that both are "huge inspiration" for aspiring sportspersons in the country.
Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis defeated Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in straight sets to virtually seal a women's doubles semi-final spot in the WTA Tennis Finals in Singapore.
They beat Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues in the first round of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon.
She may not have succeeded in winning a gold at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games, but tennis star Sania Mirza is now looking forward to give her best in the next month's Asian Games in Guangzhou.
Sania Mirza could not end the season on a high as she and her partner Nuria Llagostera Vives were sent packing from the WTA Kremlin Cup by the American pair of Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, in Moscow.
Sania was forced to drop a set by Shruthi Dhawan before making the grade in the ITF event in Jakarta.
Upbeat after winning the Australian Open mixed doubles crown in the company of Sania Mirza, tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi declared that he would continue teaming with the Hyderabadi ace in subsequent Grand Slam tournaments this year.
A gritty Sania Mirza saved four match points before going down 3-6, 6-2, 6-7 (3) to top seed Anastasia Rodionova in a heart-stopping women's singles final to settle for a silver in the tennis competition of the 19th Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
Sania Mirza and Francesca Schiavone's were handed a straight-set defeat by Spanirad Arantxa Parra Santonja and Edina Gallovits of Romania at the doubles event of the USD 220,000 Hobart International WTA tournament on Wednesday.
The Hyderabadi girl jumped one spot in the doubles rankings as well to reach 37.
Sania Mirza, playing her first competitive match since a long injury lay-off, along with her Italian partner Francesca Schiavone reached the doubles quarter-finals of the USD 220,000 WTA Hobart International tournament on Monday.
The Indian ace beat USA's Laura Granville 6-3, 7-5 in the second round at the US Open.
John Farrington said the line call when Maria Sharapova was three breakpoints down on the serve changed the game away from Sania Mirza.
They were beaten by Shinobu Asagoe and Katarina Srebotnik in the doubles final of the Bausch and Lomb Championships in Florida.
The 20-year-old Hyderabadi maintained her doubles ranking of 26.
The Indian ace beat Russia's Dinara Safina 6-1, 6-2 in the third round in San Diego.
The Indian ace rallied from a set down to beat Japan's Akiko Morigami to enter the second round of the Bank of West Classic tournament.
Making her first semi-final appearance after quarter-final exits at each of the last two editions of the tournament, Sania confessed that she ran out of steam towards the end.
The Indo-American pair went down 6-7, 7-5, 10-4 to Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China in the semi-final of the Indian Wells tournament.
Sania Mirza and Cara Black crashed out of the French Open after being humbled yet again by their nemesis, Su-Wei Hsieh and Shuai Peng, in the women's doubles quarter-finals.
While Mahesh Bhupathi and Wesley Moodie were ousted in the second round in Rotterdam
She beat Russian Ekaterina Afinogenova of Russia to enter the last four of the ITF World Ranking Tennis tournament.
Indian ace Sania Mirza crashed out of the Pan Pacific Open with a first-round defeat in a three setter against Chinese Jie Zheng.
The Indian ace faces her Bangalore Open conqueror, Yaroslava Shvedova of Russia, in the first round of the grass court championships.
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