Rome: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna reached the semi-finals of the Rome Masters after getting a walkover from rivals Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek even as Sania Mizra and Bethanie Mattek-Sands crashed out of the women's event, here.
Berdych, who shocked world number one Novak Djokovic in the men's singles in a gruelling three-setter, cited muscle fatigue as the reason for him withdrawing.
Bhupathi and Bopanna will now fight it out with Mexico's Santiago Gonzalez and American Scott Lipsky for a place in the final. Gonzalez and Lipsky came from a set down to upset second seeded Spaniards Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez 1-6, 6-4, 10-6 in their quarter-finals.
Meanwhile, Sania and Bethanie's campaign ended in the women's doubles after their 4-6 3-6 defeat against top seeds and local favourites Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci. The Indo-American pair lost in one hour and 15 minutes as they squandered six of the nine break chances....
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01:49 PM, May 18, 2013
Rome: Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands scored a straight set win over Francesca Schiavone and Samantha Stosur to move to the quarter-finals of the WTA Premier event, here. The sixth seeded Indo-American pair registered a 6-4 6-3 win over the Italian-Australian combination in one hour and 13 minutes in the second round of the prestigious clay court tournament. There was little to separate the two teams as...
03:55 PM, May 16, 2013
Rome: Women's doubles sixth seeds of Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands reached the second round of the Rome Masters here. The Indo-American pair beat Japanese-Latvian duo of Shuko Aoyama and Liga Dekmeijere 6-1, 6-3 in 58 minutes Tuesday. The winners broke their opponents five times in the match. They will face Italian-Australian unseeded pair Francesca Schiavone and Samantha Stosur late Wednesday. India's Leander Paes will also play his men's doubles...
07:55 PM, May 15, 2013
Madrid: Sania Mirza and her American pair Bethanie Mattek-Sands made an early exit from the Madrid Open after losing their second round match in straight sets to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova on Thursday. The fifth seed Indo-American pair lost 5-7 1-6 to the unseeded Russian-Czech pair in one hour and 10 minutes in the second round of the euro 4,033,254 clay court event. Sania and Bethanie could convert just...
04:06 PM, May 09, 2013
Madrid: Fifth seeds Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sania Mirza advanced to the next round at the Mutua Madrid Open with a three-set win over Daniela Hantuchova and Anabel Medina Garrigues. The Indo-American pair have been in terrific form this year, winning Premier-level titles in Brisbane and Dubai and finishing runners-up in Stuttgart. The duo were down a break in the first set at 4-3, 5-4 and 6-5 yet broke serve each...
07:36 PM, May 07, 2013
Stuttgart: Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands will have to wait for their third title of the season as they ended runners-up at the WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix after losing the summit clash to Sabine Lisicki and Mona Barthel, on Sunday. Playing their third final of the season, the unseeded Indo-American pair lost 4-6 5-7 in one hour and 33 minutes to the local favourites, who were unseeded wild card...
10:15 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Stuttgart: Top seed and holder Maria Sharapova battled through a tough three-set claycourt match for the third day in a row on Saturday to book a place in the final of the Stuttgart Grand Prix. The Russian ended the challenge of home favourite Angelique Kerber, beating the third seed 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 to set up a title showdown with Li Na of China who put out American qualifier Bethanie Mattek-Sands...
09:26 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Stuttgart: Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Liezel Huber and Janette Husarova to enter the women's doubles semi-final at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix here. The Indo-American pair got past the American-Slovak combination 7-5, 6-4 in the quarter-finals played on Friday. Sania-Bethanie next play Germany's Angelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic on Saturday night. Bethanie is also enjoying a great run in the singles event where she faces Li Na of...
05:32 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Berlin: World number five Li Na withstood a late comeback from Petra Kvitova to beat the fifth-seeded Czech 6-3, 7-5 on Friday and set up a Stuttgart Grand Prix semi-final with American qualifier Bethanie Mattek-Sands. The second seed from China was put under early pressure by a series of sizzling Kvitova groundstrokes but responded by rattling off five consecutive games to snatch the first set. World number eight Kvitova took...
08:56 AM, Apr 27, 2013
The seventh seeded Indo-American pair lost 1-6, 4-6 in just 66 minutes, losing serve three times in each set. ...
12:08 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands overcame Jarmila Gajdosova and Sabine Lisicki to win 6-1, 3-6, 10-7 in the second round. ...
11:14 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Bhupathi and Daniel Nestor bowed out of the men's doubles with a 4-6, 6-7 (4) defeat against Spaniard Feliciano Lopez and Milos Raonic of Canada. ...
05:13 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The 20-year-old, playing her first singles final, dropped her first set in the tournament but rallied past Bethanie Mattek-Sands 1-6 7-5 6-3. ...
10:43 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Sania and her partner Bethanie Mattek clinched the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship doubles title in a tie-breaker 6-4, 2-6, 10/7. ...
09:16 PM, Feb 23, 2013
The unseeded Indo-American pair took out Anastasia Rodionova and Cara Black 6-2, 7-5 in the semi-finals of Dubai Tennis Championship. ...
05:24 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Somdev Devvarman gave a mighty scare to world number 26 before fizzling out while Sania lost her first round women's doubles match in straight sets. ...
09:39 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Sania Mirza began her 2013 campaign in style by winning the Brisbane International tennis tournament with American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands here on Saturday. ...
07:31 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands on Thursday 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, here. ...
06:17 PM, Jan 03, 2013
New York: Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands entered the women's doubles third round with a straight-set win on a mixed day for the Indians in the US Open here. The 13th seeded combination of Sania and Bethanie got the better of Croatian Darija Jurak and Hungary's Katalin Marosi 6-4 6-2. The Indo-American pair now have a tough match on hand as they will take on second-seeded Italians...
04:42 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New York: Venus Williams overcame an early deficit for an easy win in her return to the US Open. The seven-time Grand Slam champion pulled out of the tournament before her second-round match last year because of an autoimmune disease. Williams was back on Tuesday, and she beat fellow American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-3, 6-1. Williams, unseeded with a ranking of No. 46, was broken in her first game. But after...
02:49 AM, Aug 29, 2012
