In individual doubles rankings, Sania is now only 145 points away from becoming World No 1.
Sania Mirza will kick off her Australian Open campaign with a first round match against Marta Domachowska of Poland and might run into 10th seed Nadia Petrova if she clears the hurdle in the first Grand Slam of the year. Ranked a lowly 107th after her long injury layoff, Sania would take on world number 61 Domachowska hoping to get past the player who beat her in their only previous meeting in a hard-court tournament back in 2003.
While Mahesh Bhupathi suffered disappointment in the doubles as well as mixed doubles
Fourth seeds Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina's doubles campaign at the Mercury Insurance Open came to an end following a right-hand injury to the Russian. Up against Elena Bovina of Russia and Jie Zheng of China, the Indo-Russian pair was trailing 2-5 in the opening set when they decided to opt out of the contest.
Sania Mirza missed out on winning her second title of the season after losing the final of the $1,00,000 ITF tournament in Taipei along with local player Hsieh Su-wei.
The Indo-Aussie combination were beaten 6-2, 6-4 by Alona Bondarenko and Anastasia Yakimova
She climbed two places to be on 35th in the latest ratings announced on Monday.
India's Sania Mirza beat Alexa Glatch 6-4, 6-4 to enter the final at Forest Hills Women's Tennis Classic in New York
Newly-wed Sania Mirza will return to competitive tennis at a WTA event starting on June 7 in Birmingham after three-month gap during which she got married to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik.
The Indian ace went down 2-6, 6-4, 4-6 to Japan's Akiko Morigami in the third round.
Sania Mirza, India's first female Grand Slam title winner, will open her French Open campaign against Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboev, ranked 95. Sania started the season well, winning the mixed doubles title at Australian Open with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi.
Shrugging off the controversy surrounding their partnership, Sania Mirza and Israeli Shahar Peer displayed a resolute performance to advance to the second round of Wimbledon women's doubles competition.
She was beaten 32-year-old American Lisa Raymond at the Bausch and Lomb Championships in Florida.
The Indian ace fought off a strong challenge from qualifier Bethanie Mattek at the Pacific Life Open.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza has urged Ayesha Siddique to come out in the open and defend her claim of marriage to her would-be husband, former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik. Addressing the media in Hyderabad on Monday evening along with Malik, Sania backed Shoaib and declared that their marriage would take place as scheduled on April 15.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis on Thursday claimed that the decision to end their astonishing partnership was due to the failure to achieve the "desired results" and added they would play together one last time in the season-ending WTA Finals in October.
Defending champions Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis brushed aside Christina Mchale and Jelena Ostapenko to move into the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon Championships on Monday.
She has always found her stupendous success on court go hand-in-hand with controversies off it and that is precisely the reason why Sania Mirza is hardly bothered about what a few people have to say about her.
Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles after losing a thriller but Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the second round of the mixed doubles at the US Open in New York. Fourteenth seeds Sania and Francesca Schiavone of Italy made a smart recovery from a set down but failed to deliver at crucial points in the decider to lose 2-6, 6-1, 5-7 against the unseeded duo of Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Shahar Peer of Israel in a 125-minute second round match.
The Indian went down to Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn in the first round qualifying match.
Sania and Huber beat Muller and Silvija 7-6 (12-10) 2-6, 6-4 in a match that lasted more than an hour, at the Bangalore Open.
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