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Thursday, 28 May 2009 |
 Tennis star Sania Mirza is set to marry a Hyderabadi guy. Sania, who is facing severe injuries and declining career, now wants to settle by the beginning of next year.
Sohrab Mirza is a Hyderabad based businessman and Sania is reportedly taking interest in him and talks are in final stage for the marriage, sources believe. There is not much more in tennis circuit for Sania.
According to the reports, Sania tried to do friendship with international tennis player Marat Safin, but it didn’t work as Safin was not interested in the Hyderabadi girl.
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
 Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza crashed out of French Open women's singles event after losing in straight sets to Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva in Roland Garros on Tuesday. Sania went down 4-6 6-7 (3) in a contest lasting a little over an hour and a half.
Sania, who has never gone beyond the second round at Roland Garros, had little match practice going into the clay court event.
The Indian's rustiness was quite evident in the six double faults she committed in the very first set. Sania's failure to convert any of the four break points that she earned only added to her problems.
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 |
 Indian tennis ace Sainia Mirza is all set to play her opener at the French Open on Tuesday (May 26) where she takes on the unseeded Kazakh Galina Voskoboeva.
Mirza, who is recovering from yet another injury, has seen her ranking fall to her current position of 95 th in the world. But the only Grand Slam to be played on clay, will offer the Hyderabadi the chance to once again start her climb to the top 32 of the game.
Sania reached a career high ranking of 27 in August 2007 but with injuries plaguing her career, Sania has steadily slipped in the singles rankings. |
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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
 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 here.
The unseeded Indo-Taipei duo were leading 2-0 in the first set when their opponents pulled out due to an injury in Azarenka's left knee.
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Friday, 24 April 2009 |
 India’s Sania Mirza’s first doubles title of the year has helped her jump nine places to 59th in the WTA rankings even as she remained static at 100th in the singles chart issued April 13.
The Indian ace, along with Chinese Taipei’s Chia-Jung Chuang, lifted the $ 220,000 MPS Group Championships’ doubles title here April 12. It was Sania’s eighth doubles title overall but first in more than a year.
In singles, Sania didn’t lose ground despite her first-round exit from the Florida event and held on to the 100th spot with 652 points. |
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009 |
 Sania Mirza's good show in the doubles has catapulted her 11 places to the 59th position in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings released on Monday.
The 22-year-old Indian along with Chuang Chia-Jung of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) won the MPS Group doubles title in Florida on Sunday.
Chuang jumped three places to be at the 14th spot. The two also reached the semi-final at Miami last week.
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Saturday, 11 April 2009 |
 Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang stunned fourth seeded pair of Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nadia Petrova in straight sets to storm into the doubles semi-finals of the $220,000 the MPS Group Championships.
The unseeded Indo-Taipei pair earned a hard fought 6-4, 7-5 victory over the formidable American-Russian duo in one hour and 19 minutes.
Sania and Chuang broke their rivals thrice in both the sets while saving five breakpoints en route the convincing win.
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 |
 Seventh-seeded Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko beat India’s Sania Mirza 6-4, 6-3 in the opening round of the MPS Group Championships here on Monday.
In other matches, 14-year-old Madison Keys made her WTA Tour debut with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Russian Alla Kudryavtseva.
Keys, who made her professional debut at the $25,000 Challenger at Fort Walton Beach, becomes one of the youngest players to win a WTA match. American Mary Joe Fernandez holds the record, notching her first victory at 13 years seven months, according to the WTA.
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Saturday, 04 April 2009 |
 Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang of China bowed out in straight sets against third seeds Lisa Raymond of USA and her Czech partner Kveta Peschke in the women's doubles semifinal of the USD 4.5 million Miami Masters here.
The unseeded Indo-Chinese duo lost 6-7 (5/7) 4-6 making way for Raymond and Peschke to enter the final of the prestigious hard court event here late last night.
Sania and Chuang matched their higher-ranked opponent game by game in the opening set and stretched the affair into tie-breaker but they were soon overpowered by the USA-Czech pair. |
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 |
 India's Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) registered an upset win over eighth-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta and Russian Maria Kirilenko to storm into the doubles quarter-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open.
The unseeded Indo-Taiwanese pair rallied from a set down to beat Pennetta and Kirilenko 4-6, 7-6(5), 10-4 here on Monday.
Sania and Chuang next play the winner of the match between Israel's Shahar Peer and Argentine Gisela Dulko and second-seeded Spaniards Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual.
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