Eastbourne: Indo-American pairing Sania Mirza and Liezel Huber defeated Croatian-British duo of Darija Jurak and Heather Watson to enter the quarter-finals of the women's doubles event at the Aegon International here Tuesday.
The second seeds were not in their elements but managed to win their first round tie 7-6(4), 7-6(3) in one hour and 36 minutes on the grass courts of Devonshire Park. Sania-Liezel had a shaky start as they were broken by their unseeded opponents in the in third game of match. However, the second seeds broke back in the next game to level the match.
The pairs broke each other once more before forcing a tie-break which the Indo-American combine took 7-4. In the second set, after winning the first service game, Darija-Heather broke their opponents in the second game to go 2-0 up. Like the first set, Sania-Liezel again broke their opponents to level the match.
With the set level at five-all, Sania and Liezel broke Darika and Heather in the crucial 11th game. The Croat-Brazilian pair returned the favour and pushed the match into another tiebreak....
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08:49 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Paris: Indian challengers continued to exit from the French Open as Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands were forced to retire from their pre-quarterfinals following a groin problem to the latter, here Tuesday. Sania and Bethanie, seeded seventh, had annexed the first set but the American encountered a groin issue in the second set and eventually they pulled out with score reading 7-6(0) 3-5 against 11th seeds Anastasia...
06:59 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Paris: Sania Mirza and her partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands progressed to the third round of the women's doubles event with a three-set win over American pair of Lauren Davis and Megan Moulton-Levy here. Seeded seventh, Sania-Bethanie pair came from a set down to beat the American combination 1-6, 6-3, 6-0 in one hour and 41 minutes. The Indo-American duo will next face 11th seeded Rusian-Czech pair of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie...
10:50 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Paris: Indo-American pairing of Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands advanced to the women's doubles second round at Roland Garros here on Saturday. Playing on Court No.1, the seventh seeds defeated French duo of Alize Cornet and Virginie Razzano in straight sets in the first round. Sania-Bethanie won 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 28 minutes. Serves were regularly broken in both the sets, with the seventh seeds breaking one more...
04:46 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Paris: India's Sania Mirza and her Swedish partner Robert Lindstedt on Friday crashed out in the first round of the mixed doubles event, suffering a shocking straight-set defeat at the hands of Cara Black and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi here. The top seeded Indo-Swede combination were no match for their unseeded opponents, losing 2-6, 3-6 in little less than an hour. Black and Qureshi will now face the winner of the match...
11:02 PM, May 31, 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: 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
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01:22 PM, Apr 11, 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
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11:14 AM, Mar 26, 2013
The Telugu flick 'DK Bose' will have actors Sundeep Kishan and Nisha Agarwal in key roles. ...
12:14 PM, Mar 25, 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
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04:26 PM, Feb 28, 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
Competing against some top players in the world, Indian team was routed 0-3 by hosts Kazakhstan in their Fed Cup opener. ...
09:53 PM, Feb 06, 2013
