Sania Mirza has received another lift in her already booming career. The Indian tennis ace reached the 25th doubles final of her career at the WTA New Haven Open.
After achieving the rare feat of being the World No. 1 in women's doubles for 80 consecutive weeks, Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has said it was very satisfying to be bracketed with the legends of the game.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly feels that Mahesh Bhupathi should have agreed to play Leander Paes in the Olympics as the latter is a terrific doubles player.
Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands reached the first final of the new season when their opponents -- Daniela Hantuchova and Katarina Srebotnik -- conceded the semi-final match at the WTA Brisbane International.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her American partner Liezel Huber advanced to the third round of women's doubles event at the Wimbledon with a three-set win over Italian-German duo of Flavia Pennetta and Andrea Petkovic.
Sania Mirza and Liezel Huber were made to work hard by Darija Jurak and Heather Watson before making the quarter-finals in the WTA Aegon International, in Eastbourne, on Tuesday.
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.
Sania Mirza and her American doubles partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands progressed to the semi-finals of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix after registering a straight sets win over Liezel Huber and Janette Husarova in Stuttgart.
Sania Mirza teamed up with Canadian Daniel Nestor to outplay Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan and Ashley Fisher of Australia 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the mixed doubles.
Mirza and Huber spanked Australia's Casey Dellacqua and US-citizen of Indian origin Sunitha Rao 6-1, 6-4.
Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina stunned top seeds Bob Bryan and Liezel Huber to enter the mixed doubles final of the Wimbledon championships, on Saturday.
Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina moved into the semi-finals of the mixed doubles of Wimbledon with a comprehensive 6-2, 6-2 win over Paul Hanley and Alla Kudryavtseva on Friday.
American top seeds Liezel Huber and Bob Bryan claimed the mixed doubles title at the French Open on Thursday.
India's Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina of Russia fought their way to the mixed doubles semi-finals of the French Open with a thrilling 4-6, 7-5, 10-5 victory over Max Mirnyi of Belarus and American Liezel Huber.
Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina yet again ended runners-up to nemesis Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond, losing the WTA Indian Wells Premier event's summit clash in straight sets.
Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina showed nerves of steel under pressure as they shocked second seeds Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond to breeze into the women's doubles semi-final of the Australian Open in Melbourne.
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.
Defending champions Serena and Venus Williams defeated Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian Open women's doubles title on Friday, maintaining the partnership's perfect record in grand slam finals.
Sania Mirza stormed into her first Grand Slam doubles final. She and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina defeated the American duo of Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond in a thrilling three-setter in the semi-finals of the French Open in Paris on Wednesday.
Sania Mirza and partner Elena Vesnina pulled off a big upset, ousting second seeds and strong contenders Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond from the Family Circle Cup with a straight-set victory.
The fifth seeded mixed doubles pair of Leander Paes of India and Cara Black of Zimbabwe entered the final of the US Open with a straight-set victory on Wednesday.
Mahesh Bhupathi and his American partner Liezel Huber have been given the top billing at the mixed doubles event of the French Open while Leander Paes and Cara Black are seeded second.
Facts and figures about the Wimbledon women's tournament which starts on June 23 in London.
Injured Venus Williams will join her sister Serena on the Fed Cup sidelines with Vania King named to take her place on the US team that will play the quarter-finals in Antwerp against Belgium.
Indian aces Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes breezed into the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles event with their respective partners following straight set wins over their opponents at the US Open in New York, on Saturday. Top seeds Bhupathi and his American partner Liezel Huber eased past Jill Craybas and Eric Butorac of the US 6-3, 6-3 in a 54-minute second round match.
Australian Open winners Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi will play with different partners in the mixed doubles of the US Open. Sania will partner Canada's Daniel Nestor while Bhupathi will team up with America's Liezel Huber.
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.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black stormed into the final of Wimbledon's mixed doubles event with a straight-set victory over Stephen Huss and Virginia Ruano Pascual on Friday. The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents 6-4, 6-4 in a little over 70 minutes.
Venus and Serena Williams won the US Open women's doubles crown on Monday with a dominating 6-2, 6-2 victory over top seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber.
While second seeds Paes and Zimbabwe's Cara Black got the better of seventh seeds Rennae Stubbs of Australia and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden 7-5, 3-6 [10-6], top seeds Bhupathi and Liezel Huber of the United States scored an easy victory over eighth seeds Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nenad Zimonjic, winning 6-4, 6-3.
Sania Mirza and her Italian partner Francesca Schiavone crashed out of the doubles event of the US$ two million Cincinnati Open following a straight sets defeat against top seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber. The unseeded Indo-Italian pair lost 4-6, 3-6 to the Zimbabwean-American combination in one hour and 14 minutes in the second round of the WTA event.
The two Indian tennis aces won the doubles titles at the Pilot Pen tournament with Mara Santangelo and Nenad Zimonjic respectively.
The second seeds beat the Russia's Elena Vesnina and Anastassia Rodionova in the final of the WTA Bangalore Open.
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 tennis ace Leander Paes stayed on course for a grand double at the US Open, when he and Zimbabwe's Cara Black won the mixed doubles crown at the season-ending Grand Slam Thursday. The fifth seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair beat the American-British pairing of Liezel Huber and Jamie Murray 7-6, 6-4 in the final.
They beat wild cards Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amelie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-4 in the first round at the Dubai Open.
Sania Mirza and Liezel Huber went down 6-2, 7-5 against Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Meghann Shaughnessy.
The Indo-South African pair beat the Canadian-Slovak pair of Maurin Drake and Tina Krizan in the first round at the Acura Classic.
Also moving up was Mahesh Bhupathi, who improved two notches to 18th in the men's doubles rankings.
They were beaten by Shinobu Asagoe and Katarina Srebotnik in the doubles final of the Bausch and Lomb Championships in Florida.
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