India's tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis continued their stupendous run by clinching their 25th victory together to enter the final of the Brisbane International Tennis Tournament in Brisbane, on Friday.
The Indian ace beat American Meghann Shaughnessy 6-3, 6-1 to move into the second round Acura Classic.
They were beaten in straight sets by Italy's Maria Elena Camerin and Gisela Dulko of Argentina.
They set up a second round clash with Shikha Uberoi and Jelena Jankovic at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford.
They were beaten by Shinobu Asagoe and Katarina Srebotnik in the doubles final of the Bausch and Lomb Championships in Florida.
Sania Mirza, seeded ninth, advanced with a 6-1, 0-6, 6-1 victory over Finland's Emma Laine.
The Indian ace was trailing 5-7 against Meng Yuan of China when she pulled out due to lower back strain.
Sania Mirza will kick off her Australian Open campaign with a first round match against Marta Domachowska of Poland and might run into 10th seed Nadia Petrova if she clears the hurdle in the first Grand Slam of the year. Ranked a lowly 107th after her long injury layoff, Sania would take on world number 61 Domachowska hoping to get past the player who beat her in their only previous meeting in a hard-court tournament back in 2003.
While Mahesh Bhupathi and Wesley Moodie were ousted in the second round in Rotterdam
Sania Mirza slipped to 41 in WTA rankings after a first round exit at the French Open
'She is a daughter-in-law of Pakistan and this is not something that can be overlooked.' 'So many have contributed towards the Telangana cause and many have laid down their lives for the same. Why are their names not considered?' BJP leader Dr K Laxman defends himself in this exclusive interview with Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com
Amid a controversy over a Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party leader describing tennis star Sania Mirza as a "non-local" and "daughter-in-law" of Pakistan, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday said the tennis ace is a pride and brand ambassador of India.
While Mahesh Bhupathi suffered disappointment in the doubles as well as mixed doubles
The Indo-Aussie combination were beaten 6-2, 6-4 by Alona Bondarenko and Anastasia Yakimova
The 20-year-old stormed into the final of the 15th Asian Games beating China's top seed Na Li.
India's Sania Mirza put herself in contention for a seventh Grand Slam title as she breezed into the Australian Open mixed doubles final with Ivan Dodig, beating local favourites Samantha Stosur and Sam Groth in Melbourne on Friday.
Sania Mirza is in line to win her third Grand Slam title and first with new partner Bruno Soares as the top seeded pair struggled past Yung-Jan Chan and Ross Hutchins to reach the mixed doubles summit clash.
She climbed two places to be on 35th in the latest ratings announced on Monday.
India's Sania Mirza beat Alexa Glatch 6-4, 6-4 to enter the final at Forest Hills Women's Tennis Classic in New York
K Laxman, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader raised a storm after he dubbed tennis ace Sania Mirza "Pakistan's daughter-in-law" after it was announced that Mirza would be the brand ambassador of Telangana.
The Indian ace went down 2-6, 6-4, 4-6 to Japan's Akiko Morigami in the third round.
She might be one of the most sought-after sportspersons in India but tennis ace Sania Mirza says "it's difficult to be a Sania Mirza in this country" due to the prevailing "gender inequality" and called for an urgent need to bring about a cultural change.
She was beaten 32-year-old American Lisa Raymond at the Bausch and Lomb Championships in Florida.
India's playing-captain Sania Mirza, who returned from the United States after achieving the World No.1 rank in women's doubles, did not need to take field in the Fed Cup tie against Pakistan as the players from the neighboring country proved easy meat for the two Indian girls.
Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles after losing a thriller but Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the second round of the mixed doubles at the US Open in New York. Fourteenth seeds Sania and Francesca Schiavone of Italy made a smart recovery from a set down but failed to deliver at crucial points in the decider to lose 2-6, 6-1, 5-7 against the unseeded duo of Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Shahar Peer of Israel in a 125-minute second round match.
The Indian ace fought off a strong challenge from qualifier Bethanie Mattek at the Pacific Life Open.
The Indian went down to Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn in the first round qualifying match.
Mirza moves on to a quarter-final against Indonesia's Angelique Widjaja.
The Hyderabadi player has been advised a three-week rest by her doctor while the fourth and last Grand Slam of the year kicks off from Monday.
Sania and Huber beat Muller and Silvija 7-6 (12-10) 2-6, 6-4 in a match that lasted more than an hour, at the Bangalore Open.
Ankita Bhambri and Rushmi Chakravarthy are the other two members of the team that will be coached by Enrico Piperno.
The fifth seed Indo-American pair had to work hard for a 7-6(3), 4-6, 10-4 victory over the Slovakian-Spanish combo of Daniela Hantuchova-Anabel Medina Garrigues.
Reader Namit sent us this picture from Melbourne.
The Indian ace and her American partner Corina Morariu will play 14th seeds Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia and Amelie Mauresmo of France in the first round.
Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands earned themselves a shot at their third title of the season by reaching the final of the WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart.
India's Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau stormed into the semifinals of the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open with straight sets victory over Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Julia Georges, in Melbourne on Thursday.
India's campaign ended at the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament after Sania Mirza and Cara Black went down to Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain and Kazakhstan's Yaroslave Shvedova in their women's doubles second round match.
Sania Mirza, who got a wild card entry for the Olympics, indicated she has no problem in partnering Leander Paes in the mixed doubles event in London but hit out at the AITA for using her as a "bait" in the selection row.
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