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.
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.
Already out of singles competition, Sania Mirza's doubles campaign also ended after she and her partner Chia-Jung Chuang suffered a straight set loss to Alla Kudryavtseva and Monica Niculescu in the second round of the Wimbledon Championships on Saturday.
The Indian ace defeated wild card Eleni Daniilidou of Germany 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-3 in the first round match on Tuesday.\n\n
The two were attending the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit.
Sania Mirza tamed world No 51 Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the ladies singles at Wimbledon on Monday. The Indian ace next faces 28th seed Sorana Cirstea of Romania, who beat countrywoman Edina Gallovits 7-5, 6-1.
Tennis player Sania Mirza feels that events like the Asian and Commonwealth Games are important in understanding India's standing in sports other than cricket.
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.
The 14th seeded Indian was beaten by Meilen Tu of the US at the DFS Classic International women's tennis tournament.
The Indian ace reached a career-high 31st in the latest WTA Tour rankings despite being out of action for the last three weeks.
The Indian ace, who broke into the top-50 this week, is suffering from a stomach pull
The Indian teen star was ranked 48 in the WTA rankings list released on Monday.
Riding on her semifinal appearance in the just concluded Aegon Classic, Indian ace Sania Mirza jumped 20 places to reach 78 in the latest WTA singles rankings, released on Monday.
American ace said Sania has a solid game for her age.
However, the Indian ace said she would not use it as an excuse for the defeat in the women's singles final.
The 18-year-old knocked out top seed Russian Vera Zvonareva 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 in the quarter-finals.
The 18-year-old thrashed Aiko Nakamura of Japan 6-1, 6-4 in the second round of the Japan Open.
Reader Prakash Rao sent us this picture from the USA.
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.
The Indian tennis ace became the first Indian sportswoman to feature on the cover of Time magazine.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Thursday hit out at politicians for raising objections to her being appointed as Telangana's brand ambassador, saying that her family had been staying in Hyderabad for more than a century and to call her an outsider was condemnable.
India's Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands crashed out of the Sony Open Miami Masters after losing their women's doubles quarter-final match against world No.1 pair of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci in straight sets at Crandon Park.
Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang fought valiantly but lost a tough semifinal battle to crash out of the euro 3,500,000 Madrid Open, going down in straight sets against third seeds Kveta Peschke and Lisa Raymod in Madrid.
Sania Mirza and her partner Chia-Jung Chuang advanced to the semifinals of the USD 4,500,000 Madrid Open after Russian-Belarussian duo of Victoria Azarenka and Elena Vesnina conceded their quarterfinal match in Madrid.
India's Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis, on Thursday, rallied to win their 29th match in a row, to reach the Sydney International women's doubles final and break a 22-year-old world record en route.
Sania Mirza upset top seed Irina Boulykina of Russia to win the 10,000 dollar ITF women's title at Wrexham, England.
Sania Mirza set up a second round clash with multiple Grand Slam winner and second seed Venus Williams after edging past Sesil Karatantcheva 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the US $1 million WTA Family Circle Cup in Charleston.
The Indian ace beat Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko in straight sets to advance to the main draw of the Acura Classic.
They lost to top seeded pair of Kveta Peschke and Maria Emilia Salermi in Cincinnati.
The Indian ace was beaten in straight sets by Japan's Akiko Morigami.
Reader Mayank Agarwal sent us a picture of Sania Mirza from Hyderabad.
She beat Kristina Brandi 7-6, 7-5 in the second round of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open.
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.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis got past the Spanish pair of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja to move into the ladies doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
Sania Mirza and her partner Chuang Chia-jung of Taiwan rallied to stun eighth seeds Maria Kirilenko and Flavia Pennetta in a gruelling three-setter for a place in the women's doubles quarterfinal of the USD 4.5 million Miami Masters.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza on Monday rubbished media reports that she and her husband will appear in TV reality show Big Boss season-IV and said even if such an offers comes, they are not interested.
India's Leander Paes and Purav Raja sailed into the men's doubles second round in the duo's first outing at a Grand Slam but Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of their respective events in the US Open.
The Indian ace will take on the 64th ranked Japanese in the first round at Wimbledon.
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