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.
Teen tennis prodigy Sania Mirza has been given a wildcard for the WTA Hyderabad Open beginning on February 7.
Reader Murlai Ramadoss met Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
The Indian ace and Italy's Mara Santangelo got the better of Neha and Shikha Uberoi 6-3, 6-1 at the Bangalore Open.
The Indian had made the first round exit at the Tier I tournament at Key Biscayne in Miami last week.
The Indian doubles ace said the AITA preferred the pairing for the Asian Games as it felt they have a good chance of winning the gold medal.
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.
The Indian ace's involvement in the Australian Open ended after defeats in the women's doubles and mixed doubles on Monday.
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.
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.
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.
After a sharp drop in rankings in 2006, will the tennis star recover next season?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After getting married fairy-tale style in Udaipur, Parineeti Chopra and AAP MP Raghav Chadha returned to the latter's home in New Delhi.
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.
However, the Indian ace and her partner South African Liezel Huber, entered the doubles quarter-finals of the Acura Classic.
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.
Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina crashed out of the Qatar Open, losing in 4-6, 4-6 to Vera Dushevina and Shahar Peer.
Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza advanced to the second round of doubles events at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
'I haven't thought about anything. I mean I'm just here, I'm having a good time, I'm winning. What more can I ask for in a comeback?'
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 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.
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.
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.
No.1 ranking will inspire 'Gen-Next' of Indian tennis, says Rohan Bopanna after achieving the feat
They shocked seventh seeds Elena Likhovtseva and Daniel Nestor in straight sets to advance to the second round of the US Open.
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.
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