Edgbaston: Second seeds Sania Mirza and Yaroslava Shvedova made a shock first-round exit from the AEGON Classic with a straight-set defeat against Iveta Benesova and Alla Kudryavtseva. The Indo-Kazakh pair lost 5-7, 3-6 to the unseeded Czech-Russian pair in the first round of the Wimbledon build-up tournament. Sania and Shevdova, who won College Park doubles title last year, lost the contest in one hour and two minutes. They dropped their...
02:41 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Birmingham: Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza crashed out in the first round of the women's singles event at the AEGON Classic tennis tournament here, losing to Tamira Paszek of Austria in a thrilling three-setter. Sania, ranked 58th in the world, was stunned 3-6 6-4 2-6 by less-fancied Paszek at the USD 220,000 grasscourt event. The world ranked 80th Austrian will now be up against Russian sixth seed Ekaterina Makarova, who...
07:11 PM, Jun 08, 2011
Sania, ranked 91st in the world and a semifinalist here last year, defeated the 83rd ranked Yung-Jan 6-1 6-4. ...
10:39 PM, Jun 07, 2010
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