India's Sania Mirza crashed out of the mixed doubles competition while Rohan Bopanna and his partner entered the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon Championships.
Sports stars in Rajasthan and Telangana stepped out to cast their vote on Friday.
The Indian lass proved too good for Australia's Dubravka Cuback in the ITF tournament in England.
The Indian ace beat Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-4, 6-3 in the first round of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open
Sania Mirza won on Sunday won her ninth WTA doubles title when she triumphed at the Guangzhou International Women's Open along with Romanian partner Edina Gallovits.
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Tennis sensation Sania Mirza, surrounded by tight security after two lovelorn youth attempted to barge into her house to 'marry her', will exchange engagement rings with family friend Sohrab Mirza at a ceremony in Hyderabad at 2030 IST on Friday.
Sania Mirza conceded her first round singles match of the qualifying event of the USD 600,000 Aegon International in Eastbourne after suffering a hip-strain.
Ace tennis star Sania Mirza gave a fitting reply to senior Television journalist Rajdeep Sardesai after the latter reportedly asked her a 'sexist' question . After the launch of her autobiography called 'Ace Against Odds' in Hyderabad on Wednesday, Sardesai from India Today asked Sania about motherhood and settling down. The World No.1 tennis star seemed livid with the question and her reply resulted in an apology from the popular TV anchor.
Competing in only her second Challenger event, Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza clinched the USD 50,000 ITF title in Lexington, USA after an upset win over top seed Julie Coin.
Putting up yet another dominating performance, defending champions Sania Mirza and Cara Black outclassed Jelena Jankovic and Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-3, 6-2 to reach the summit clash of the WTA Toray Pan Pacific Open, in Tokyo on Friday.
Renowned fitness trainer Gil Reyes, who has worked with top stars like Ana Ivanovic and Fernando Verdasco, on Monday lauded Sania Mirza's 'athleticism' after working for one week with the Indian tennis ace. Sania, who missed India's Fed cup campaign due to an abdominal injury after winning her career's first Grand Slam mixed doubles title at the Australian Open, trained with Reynes at his training centre in Las Vegas.
India's Sania Mirza continued to stay on top of the WTA women's doubles ranking following her recent victory in the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.
Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik credited his wife, Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, for his success in international cricket since his recall to the national side this year.
World No 1 doubles player Sania Mirza's campaign in the women's tennis event came to an end as she and her partner Prarthana Thombare lost their first round match to the Chinese pair of Shuai Zhang and Shuai Peng. Zhang and Peng won a closely contested match 7-6(8-6), 5-7, 7-5 that lasted two hours and 44 minutes.
Sania Mirza's hopes of a grand double at the Australian Open were dashed after she and Croatian partner Ivan Dodig were beaten in the semi-finals of the mixed doubles on Friday night.
Sania Mirza began her grass court season with a thumping straight set win over qualifier Tatiana Poutchek in the first round of the USD 220,000 Aegon Classic in Birmingham.
Paes, Bopanna in men's doubles 3rd round
India's Sania Mirza and her partner Ivan Dodig were knocked out by Barbora Krejcikova and Marin Draganja in the mixed doubles at the 2016 US Open.
Sania Mirza of India and Ivan Dodig of Croatia bested defending champions Martina Hingis of Switzerland and Leander Paes of India 7-6 (7-1), 6-3 in the mixed doubles quarter-finals.
The second round jinx at Wimbledon continued to haunt Sania Mirza. The Indian ace crashed out of the All England Championships following a 4-6, 4-6 defeat to Romania's Sorana Cirstea on Wednesday.
Sania Mirza officially became the first Indian woman tennis player to be ranked world number one in doubles. According to the latest rankings, the Indian ace rose three rungs to 7660 points, which enabled her dethrone Italy's Sara Errani (7640 points).
Top seeds Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis advanced to the semi-finals of the US Open following a straight sets victory over Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan of Chinese Taipei in New York, on Tuesday.
India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna progressed with their respective partners but Leander Paes' campaign ended after the veteran suffered a second-round defeat with Martina Hingis in the mixed doubles at the US Open.
AITA put up a weak defence to Sania Mirza's jibe against the tennis body, saying the selection for the London Olympics was done purely on merit and that it acknowledges the accomplishments of Sania.
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna subdued Britain's Andy Murray and Heather Watson with remarkable ease to breeze into the mixed doubles semifinals of the Rio Olympic Games here. The fourth seeded Indian pair dominated the quarterfinal contest, winning 6-4 6-4 in just 67 minutes.
Sania Mirza beat Tetiana Luzhanska of Belarus to make the grade at the ITF Women's World Ranking tournament.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis saw off the challenge of Australian team of Casey Dellacqua and Samantha Stosur to move to the second round of the BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair defeated their rivals 6-3 7-5 in just 68 minutes in their opening round of the USD 6,844,139 hard court event. Sania and Martina saved four of the six breakpoints they faced in the match and broke their rivals five times in the tight contest. They next face local girl Vania King and Russia's Alla Kudryavtseva, who beat Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Czech Republic's Barbora Strycova 4-6 6-3 10-5. In the men's event, Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea, seeded fifth, are up against Spanish team of Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lpez in their first round of the USD 7,037,595 event.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza, making a comeback from a wrist injury, went down fighting against her nemesis Ana Chakvetadze, resulting in team Asia-Pacific's 0-2 defeat against Team Russia at World Team Challenge tournament in Hong Kong on Thursday.
Sania Mirza's challenge in the WTA Dubai Open ended on Thursday when she, along with her Italian partner Mara Santangelo, were beaten by the American-Zimbabwean combine of Liezel Huber and Cara Black in the second round.
Indian ace Sania Mirza and Switzerland's Martina Hingis entered the semi-finals of the WTA Finals after beating Taiwanese combination of Hao-Ching Chan and Yung Jan Chan 7-6 (12-10) 7-5 in Singapore on Friday. The Indo-Swiss pair will be pitted against the winner of the match between top seeds Caroline Garcia-Kristina Mladenovic and Bethanie Mattek-Sands- Lucie Safarova. It was a hard-fought two sets where both the teams held their service game till they reached 5 games all. It was in the 11th game of the first set that Sania and Hingis were broken. But the joy of their opponents was shortlived as they broke back in the very next game to take the first set into a tie-breaker.
Sania Mirza had no qualms in admitting that she and Horia Tecau were 'outplayed' in the Australian Open mixed doubles final, but said she had a great tournament and lost only to the best teams in the two events she participated in.
Leander Paes advanced in men's doubles but it was curtains for Sania Mirza who crashed out of the women's singles event after a straight-set loss to 12th seed Italian Flavia Pennetta in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
Sania Mirza's singles campaign at the Dubai Open ended when she was beaten 5-7, 2-6 by world No 24 Kaia Kanepi of Estonia in the second round on Tuesday.
She was forced to partner Leander Paes during the 2012 Olympic Games in London but this time around World No. 1 doubles player Sania Mirza claimed she has 'conveyed' her decision to the All India Tennis Federation about her preferred mixed doubles partner at the Rio Games.
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The Wimbledon girls' doubles champion beat Jenni Lee Heinser and Jenifer Stevens in the pre-quarterfinals of the ITF World Ranking Tennis tournament.
Sania Mirza won her first title of the season and 23rd of her career when she and Bethanie Mattek-Sands shocked top-seeded Americans Abigail Spears and Raquel Kops-Jones in the summit clash of the Apia International in Sydney on Friday.
A week's absence from the Tour has cost Sania Mirza 16 places. The Indian tennis ace dropped out of the top-100 and finds herself placed at 113 in the singles rankings. Somdev Devvarman dropped to 122, a loss of two places.
