Sania Mirza was on Saturday conferred with the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honor, while shooting sensation was among the Arjuna award recipients in a glittering ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Somdev Devvarman's stay in the top-100 lasted just a week, as the Indian suffered a huge loss of 15 positions to find himself at 111th spot in the latest ATP rankings. In the WTA rankings, Sania Mirza's slide continued, The Indian ace found herself at No 153 after a loss of 15 places.
The Indian ace will 20-year-old Pauline Parmentier of France in her first round match.
The Indian ace beat Maria Elena Camrin of Italy 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of the DFS Classic tennis tournament.
After her engagement with her childhood friend and businessman Sohrab Mirza on Friday, ace Indian tennis player Sania Mirza is back on her professional front.
Rohan Bopanna and Leander Paes crossed the first-round hurdle in the men's doubles with their respective partners while Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles after a first-round loss at the French Open.
Sania Mirza will have to wait till Tuesday to start her Australian Open campaign as rains forced postponement of her first round match in Melbourne on Monday.
Tennis ace Sania Mirza has revealed the names of players she thinks will rule the tennis circuit in a few years time.
Sania Mirza remained the only Indian surviving in the French Open by cruising to the quarter-finals with partner Martina Hingis while seasoned Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna bowed out after third round defeats in Paris.
It was a disappointing day for India at Wimbledon as Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles and Mahesh Bhupathi exited the mixed doubles event after second round defeats.
Sania Mirza's preparation for the Australian Open suffered a setback as she crashed out of the WTA Hobart International after losing a hard-fought first round match to wild card Alicia Molik in Hobart on Monday.
However, the Indian ace and her partner South African Liezel Huber, entered the doubles quarter-finals of the Acura Classic.
Saina Mirza and Saketh Myneni proved too strong for the Chinese Taipei combination of Hsien Yin Peng and Hao Ching Chan to win the gold in the mixed doubles final at the Asian Games.
Her prospective groom is facing allegations of marrying and dumping a woman, but Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza backed Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik on the matter, saying that she and her family have known the truth all along.
Sania Mirza could not cross the final hurdle as she missed out on making the singles main draw of the Miami WTA Premier event after losing in straight sets to American 10th seed Sloane Stephens.
Sania Mirza and Leander Paes were on course for a Australian Open showdown as they reached the mixed doubles semifinals with their respective partners, in Melbourne.
Sania Mirza has turned down an offer to partner Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in the international circuit despite the Pakistani expressing interest to play alongside the Indian tennis star several times in the past.
India's tennis ace Sania Mirza had a new companion during her practice session at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad on Monday. It was her fiancee Mohammad Sohrab Mirza, who kept clicking the tennis star as she went through her daily training routine.
The Indian ace beat Katarina Srebotnik 6-3, 7-6 to set up a third round clash with Elena Dementieva.
The Indo- South African pair shocked second seeds Virginia Ruano Pascual of\nSpain and American Meghann Shaughnessy in the semi-finals of the Bausch and Lomb Championships.
She will face the Serbian in the first round of Cincinnati Open in Ohio on Monday.
Sania Mirza entered the women's doubles semi-finals and set up a high-intensity clash against Leander Paes in the mixed doubles after both the Indians made the quarter-finals with their respective partners in the Australian Open in Melbourne.
The Indian ace and Spaniard Virginia Ruano Pascual, seeded seventh, lost 3-6, 3-6 to the unseeded Chinese combination of Jie Zheng and Yung-Jan Chan in the first round. Sania bowed out of the singles on Monday.
Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina crashed out of the Qatar Open, losing in 4-6, 4-6 to Vera Dushevina and Shahar Peer.
The Indian ace lost to Tang Phong of Thailand in the quarter-finals of the ITF event.
Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza advanced to the second round of doubles events at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
They shocked seventh seeds Elena Likhovtseva and Daniel Nestor in straight sets to advance to the second round of the US Open.
Following her triumph in the doubles at the Australian Open, Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza said it was an unreal feeling to win three Grand Slam titles in a row.
The Indo-South African pair beat Spain's Lino Dominguez and Medina Garrigues to make the grade at Amelia Island.
Leander Paes entered the second round, while Sania Mirza bowed out of the mixed doubles at the French Open.
Bopanna and Ebden won 7-6(0), 7-5 in the final that lasted one hour and 39 minutes.
Jelena Jankovic beat the Indian teenager 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the first round of the LA Open.
The Santina juggernaut rolls as the Indo-Swiss pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis overcame the Czech duo Andrea Hlav?kov and Lucie Hradeck in straight sets to win the Australian Open at the Rod Laver Arena on Friday. The World No.1 duo defeated their seventh seed opponents 7-6, 6-3 in under two hours to clinch their third title in Australia after winning in Brisbane and Sydney earlier this year. This was their third major (2015 Wimbledon and U.S Open) and twelfth doubles title together as Sania and Martina extended their winning streak to 36 matches. Images from Santina's title victory in Melbourne.
The tennis champ is now out on a mini-vacation with the Bollywood actress. Both Sania and Pareeniti shared pictures of them partying in Goa.
The pair of Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthi bowed out of the women's doubles tennis competition at the London Olympic, losing to the Chinese Taipei pair of Su Wei Hsieh and Chia-Jung Chuang on Saturday. The Indians fought their way back after losing the first set tamely, but were beaten 1-6, 6-3, 1-6 in 91 minutes.
Sania Mirza lost to Tatiana Golovin 6-4, 6-2 in the second round at the Open Gaz de France
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.
Sania Mirza and her Italian partner Francesca Schiavone, seeded 14th, survived a scare from unseeded Ekaterina Dzehalevich of Belarus and Czech Renata Voracova before recording a 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 win to advance to the women's doubles second round.
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