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 the winners scored a total of 59 points while Samantha and Francesca scored 47.
Both the teams had many a break chances but did not convert many. While Sania and Bethanie converted five of 12 chances, their rivals could cash in on just three off 11....
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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
Tennis player Sania Mirza was spotted at the Women's Prerna Awards in a stunning white 'anarkali' dress with red border. ...
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
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
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
The 5th edition of this prestigious award will be held in Chennai on March 1. ...
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
Ahead of the forthcoming Valentine's Day, celebrities like Sania Mirza and Ayushmann Khurrana have voted for 'India's Love Capital', an online property initiated to "bring in a feeling of positivity". ...
11:20 AM, Feb 05, 2013
The exact status of her injury will come after some tests on Monday in Hyderabad. ...
03:09 PM, Jan 26, 2013
Fifth seeds Bhupathi and his Russian partner Petrova lost 3-5, 6-3, 11-13 to Jarmila Gajdosova and Matthew Ebden. ...
01:13 PM, Jan 24, 2013
