Sania Mirza and her Italian partner Maria Elena Camerin entered the doubles quarter-finals of the Tashkent Open with a straight-set win over Lyudmyla and Nadiya Kichenok, in Tashkent on Wednesday.
Sania Mirza entered the third round of the Guangzhou International women's tournament, shocking third seed Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan on Wednesday. The unseeded Indian ace, who lost in the second round of the US Open after making it through the qualifying rounds, won 6-4, 6-3.
It took Kim Clijsters a few minutes to familiarise herself again with the layout at Wimbledon after a four-year absence. Once on court though, the returning Belgian wasted little time in swatting aside Italian Maria Elena Camerin 6-0, 6-3 to ease into the second round on Monday.
World number one Dinara Safina sailed through to the Slovenia Open quarter-finals when she beat fellow Russian Ksenija Pervak 6-1, 6-2 on Wednesday.
Fixtures from the US Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches
The 19-year old Indian and Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat Italy's Maria Elena Camerin and Tathiana Garbin at the Nasdaq 100 Open.
Serena Williams continued her inconsistent play but rolled into the third round of the U.S. Open with a 7-5 6-2 victory over Italian Maria Elena Camerin on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old Indian ace, however, slid in the doubles chart, dropping four places to 41st.
Olga Poutchkova beat the Indian 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 in the quarterfinal of the event.
The Indian ace will 20-year-old Pauline Parmentier of France in her first round match.
They were beaten in straight sets by Italy's Maria Elena Camerin and Gisela Dulko of Argentina.
They were beaten by the top-seeded pair of Maria Elena Camerin and Gisela Dulko.
Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis lost to Nikolay Davydenko in the third round in Miami
The Indian ace beat Maria Elena Camrin of Italy 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of the DFS Classic tennis tournament.
Shikha and Neha lost in the opening round of the doubles at the WTA Tier III tournament in Hasselt, Belgium.
A complete round-up of the morning session of play at the Australian Open.
U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Australian Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals.
According to BCM, Hyderabad-headquartered BE has licensed the recombinant protein Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed at Baylor.
Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce broke the 40-year-old Pan Am Games 200 metres record on Friday. The twice Olympic 100 metres champion clocked 22.43 seconds to win gold on Friday.
Vijayveer Sidhu, 16, shot a gold in the 25m standard pistol event for junior men after combining with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and Adarsh Singh to claim the team gold on the last day of the ISSF World Championships.
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