Sania Mirza bowed out of the Aegon Classic when she and her Chinese Taipei partner Chuang Chia-Jung lost in straight sets in the semi-finals in Birmingham on Saturday night. The third-seeded Indo-Taipei pair lost 5-7, 3-6 to the top seeded Zimbabwean-American pair of Cara Black and Liezel Huber.
India's focus on day eight will be centered around tennis mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna who are to take on the US pair of Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram, on Saturday night, in the semi-finals at the Rio Olympics.
Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski stormed into the semi-finals of the mixed doubles event of the French Open with a straight-set upset win over the duo of Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig of Croatia on Monday.
The Indo-South African pair lost to Mashona Washington and Tathiana Garbin in the doubles quarter-finals at the WTA Tier II tournament in Paris.
She along with Liezel Huber registered a straight-set victory in the women's doubles first round in France.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis notched up their 38th straight win to reach the semi finals of the women's doubles event of the St Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Saturday.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black hardly broke a sweat as they entered the US Open women's doubles semifinals after their rivals retired midway through the quarterfinal match in New York.
Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina suffered a crushing 2-6, 1-6 defeat against top seeds Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond to end runners-up at the WTA Dubai Open.
The tennis ace wishes to spend her 19th birthday in a quiet and calm fashion "with family and friends".
Sania Mirza became the first Indian to climb to the top of the WTA doubles ranking after she teamed up with Swiss great Martina Hingis to claim the Family Circle Cup title on Sunday.
The Indian ace overcame a sluggish start to beat Ekaterina Makarova of Russia in the first round on Monday night.
Sania Mirza and Yuliana Fedak ousted Sybille Bammer and Jewel Peterson 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 in the first round at Cincinnati
Defending champions Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis suffered a shock defeat in the women's doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon, beaten by Timea Babos of Hungary and Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 6-2, 6-5 on Thursday.
Sania Mirza won her second WTA doubles title of the season and 14th overall, when she combined with Bethanie Mattek-Sands to lift Brussels Open trophy with an emphatic straight set win over Alicja Rosolska of Poland and China's Zheng Jie.
The Lok Sabha on Monday felicitated badminton star Saina Nehwal and tennis player Sania Mirza.
Indian badminton legend Prakash Padukone feels Saina Nehwal has achieved more than Sania Mirza vis--vis performance because of the fact that she has beaten more higher-ranked players than the tennis ace.
The Indian ace demolished Russian Yaroslava Shvedova 6-0, 6-3 in just 55 minutes.
Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis lost 2-6, 6-4, 10-5 to Russian pair Elena Vesnina and Daria Kasatkina late on Thursday night.
The Indian ace will battle against the top players with a cut-off ranking of 36 at the Dubai Open starting on February 28.
Australian Open winners Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek saw off stiff resistance from Juan Monaco and Kei Nishikori to advance to the quarter-finals of the ATP Indian Wells Masters. The seventh-seeded Indo-Czech pair beat their unseeded opponents 7-6(5), 6-4 in a second round match.
India's Sania Mirza crashed out of the Australian Open, when she lost her first round women's singles match 27th seed Aravani Rezai on Tuesday in Melbourne.
The Indian ace won her first round singles and doubles matches at the Thailand Open.
India's most successful female tennis player Sania Mirza revealed that she will hang up her racquet after getting married.
Sania Mirza beat Italy's Tathiana Garbin 6-2, 6-2 in the 1.3-million-dollar Acura Classic in San Diego, USA.
The India ace will meet the Ukraine lass in final qualifying round of the Acura Classic tennis tournament in San Diego.
Sania Mirza entered the main draw after Chanda Rubin pulled out with an ankle inflammation at the WTA event.
Sania-Martina will next face ninth seeds Yung-Jan Chan and Hao-Ching Chan of Chinese Taipei, who rallied to beat unseeded Romanians Irina-Camelia Begu and Raluca Olaru 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (4).
The Indian teenager will take on seventh seed Anna-Lena Groenefeld at the USD 170,000 Cincinnati Open.
India's tennis campaign at the Rio Olympic Games ended in disappointment as Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna were blown away by the Czech Republic team of Radek Stepanek and Lucie Hradceka in the bronze medal play-off in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
India's Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig rallied from a set down to enter the French Open mixed-doubles quarter-finals at Roland Garros on Wednesday.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic entered the semifinals in men's doubles while another Indian Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau lost 5-7, 3-6 to the 10th-seeded British-Australian pair of Jamie Murray and Casey Dellacqua in the mixed doubles pre-quarters at the Wimbledon Championships in London on Thursday.
The Indian ace registered an easy 6-2, 6-1 victory over Italy's Roberta Vinci at the Forest Hills Women's Tennis Classic.
The third seeded Indian beat Israel's Shahar Peer 7-6, 6-1 at the Forest Hills Women's Classic in New York.
After endorsing Lotto, Malabar Gold and HPCL, tennis star Sania Mirza has been roped in by Tata Indicom with the launch of a limited edition of 'Signature Series' of handset called 'Sania Fone'.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan launched the autobiography of tennis star Sania Mirza titled Ace Against Odds in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
The hype around tennis ace Sania Mirza may be bigger but ace shuttler Saina Nehwal clearly has the edge in terms of performance, feels badminton legend Prakash Padukone.
On a mixed day for the Indians, Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the men's doubles second round but Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles event at the US $ 4.5 million BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells. Sania and her partner Chia-Jung Chuang of Taipei went down 1-6, 4-6 to the Argentine-Israeli team of Gisela Dulko and Shahar Peer in the opening round.
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