The ranking of India's injured singles stars has dipped with Sania Mirza slipping to 88 from 81 and Somdev Devvarman sliding to 70, a loss of five places, in the latest WTA and ATP ranking charts.
The Indian ace defeated Bardina of Russia in straight sets in the US $25,000 ITF women's tournament in Lagos, Nigeria.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis edged out their Czech Republican rivals Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka to clinch the women's doubles title at the Australian Open. This is their third title in a row on Australian soil after winning the Brisbane and Sydney international events. The victory also stamped the Indo-Swiss pair's authority in Women's Doubles as they secured their 36th straight win. Sania and Hingis had won the Wimbledon, US Open and year-ending WTA finals in 2015.
The top seeded pair beat the unseeded combination of Abigail Spears of the United States and Mexico's Santiago Gonzalez 6-1, 2-6, 11-9 in a thrilling mixed doubles final.
Tennis super star Sania Mirza is geared up to represent the country in next month's Olympics but she refused to predict winning a medal in the Rio Games.
The Indian tennis prodigy beat Jewel Peterson of the United States to make the grade in the Chris Evert ITF women's tournament in Florida.
World No 1 Sania Mirza was, on Monday, named captain of the Indian team for next year's Fed Cup while two six-member squads were announced by the AITA selection panel for the South Asian Games.
Sania Mirza was ousted from the Indian Wells WTA Premier tournament after suffering a straight set defeat against World No 26 Anabel Medina Garrigues, at Indian Wells on Sunday.
As tennis raise hopes of an Indian medal at the Rip Olympics, Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com put things in perspective.
The poor singles run further dented Sania Mirza's ranking as the Indian slipped to 129, a loss of 16 places, in the latest WTA list issued on Monday.
Sania won the 2016 Australian Open women's doubles title with Martina Hingis before announcing their split in August.
When contacted, AITA Secretary General Anil Dhupar said he does not have any objection to Bopanna playing with Balaji, ranked 84, at the Paris Olympics.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza sailed into the quarter-finals of the Japan Open after notching up a straight sets victory over Ukraine's Viktoriya Kutuzova in Osaka, on Wednesday. Sania defeated Kutuzova 6-4, 6-3 in one hour and 23 minutes to set up a tough quarter-final against second-seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli.
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.
They scored contrasting semi-final victories to set up an all-India final in the women's singles at the Afro-Asian Games.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza on winning the season-ending WTA Finals women's doubles title, calling it a 'proud accomplishment'.
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna set up a mixed doubles quarter-final clash against each other at the Australian Open after winning their respective matches, in Melbourne.
Sania Mirza and her American doubles partner, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, made an early exit from the Madrid Open after losing their second round match in straight sets to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis are in line to win their second title in a row as they breezed into the Miami Open final with a straight sets win over Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic.
The sixth seeded Indian went down 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 to Czech Iveta Benesova in the second round of the Stockholm Open.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis said sheer belief pulled them through.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis continued their domination in the women's doubles by winning the U.S. Open crown, their second Grand Slam of the season, after a crushing victory over Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova, in New York.
Having won two Grand Slams and become World No 1 in women's doubles this year, Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza does not really want to do anything different for the next season.
In the ATP doubles, Leander Paes slid to 25, a loss of four places.
Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina clinched their second WTA title together, lifting the Family Circle Cup doubles trophy with a straight-set triumph over Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy in Charleston.
Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek overcame a fighting Russian pair of Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva to book a semi-final berth in the US $ 600,000 WTA East West Bank Classic tournament in Los Angeles. The Indo-American pair, seeded second, pipped the Russian duo 6-3, 1-6, 10-8 in one hour and 14 minutes in the quarter-finals of the Tier II hard court event on Friday night.
Anam Mirza posted a picture of her having a 'modern Cinderella moment' with her husband Mohammad Asaduddin
Sania Mirza won her third WTA doubles title of the season, and 12th overall, when she and Yaroslava Shvedova pipped Olga Govortsova of Belarus and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia in the final of the Citi Open at College Park on Sunday. Defending their top billing, the Indo-Kazakh pair overcame the second seeds 6-3, 6-3 after an hour and five minutes' struggle.
The 21-year-old Indian ace was beaten in the second round by Spain's Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez at Wimbledon on Thursday. After staging a remarkable fightback in the second set, Sania lost 0-6, 6-4, 7-9 to the world number 101 in two hours and eight minutes.
Tennis star Sania Mirza arrived at the Games Village of the Rio Olympics and so did the table tennis squad while the Indian hockey team won its practice match against Spain.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza was sent packing from the Madrid open following a first-round defeat to Russia's Elena Vesnina.
Top-seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis entered the semifinals of the WTA Aegon International.
The 18-year-old has teamed up with the Swede in the mixed doubles event at the Wimbledon.
From 11-year-old to 60-plus, Olympics is playground for all
Sania Mirza bowed out of the Australian Open after a 6-7, 4-6 loss to Venus Williams in the third round.
Eyeing their eight title of the season, Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Swiss Martina Hingis entered the semi-finals of the China Open in Beijing on Thursday.
The Indian Davis Cup captain slammed Sania Mirza's decision to pull out of Indian events to avoid controversies.
Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek stunned formidable Taipei duo of Yung-Jan Chan and Chia-Jung Chuang to book a doubles semi-final berth at the US $ 2,100,000 Pacific Life Open WTA championships in Indian Wells. The Indo-US combine prevailed 7-5, 4-6, 11-9 in a gruelling quarter-final encounter of the Tier I event, on Wednesday night.
Balaji also showed that he can quickly adapt to conditions when he was asked to do the singles duty during the Davis Cup tie against Pakistan on grass. The rival was not of the highest quality but Balaji showed that he was willing to come out of his comfort zone if the team demands.
