Tag: Sania Mirza

For Sania Mirza, it was more than her Grand Slam wins or rise to No.1 in doubles. It’s the belief she instilled to aspiring Indian women’s athletes that will have an impact for years to come. Sania Mirza played her final professional match Tuesday, ending her career at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, a tournament she considered her home

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From winning all the Grand Slams to registering her own name four times as an Olympian,  the achievements of Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza not only registered her as the most accomplished Women’s tennis player in the country but also gave her the status of a National Sporting icon. Coming into her final major tournament, Sania had six Grand Slam

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By Sujoy Roy | AITA India’s most accomplished woman tennis player, Sania Mirza bids adieu to Wimbledon after her semi-final defeat in the mixed doubles. Sania and her Croatian partner Mate Pavic ended the tournament in despair after they bow down 6-4 5-7 4-6 to the defending champion Neil Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk in Semis. The 35 years Indian Tennis

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA The Indo-Chinese pair and second-seeded doubles team of Sania Mirza and Shuai Zhang defeated the third seeds Kaitlyn Christian of the USA and her Kiwi partner Erin Routliffe in straight sets 6-3, 6-2 to lift the WTA 500 Ostrava Open title in Ostrava, Czech Republic today. It took the second seeds only four minutes over

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA Former world no.1 in doubles, India’s Sania Mirza and her partner Shuai Zhang of China beat Makoto Nonomiya and Eri Hozumi in the doubles semi-finals 6-2, 7-5 of the $565,530 WTA 500 Ostrava Open in the Czech Republic yesterday. The straight-sets victory came in just 81 minutes for the winning Indo-Chinese duo who are seeded

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By Radhika Aggarwal | AITA India’s tennis player Sania Mirza and partner Shuai Zhang of China lost to the all-Belgian pairing Greet Minnen and Alison Van Uytvanck in a closely fought quarter-finals 3-6, 6-3, 10-8 at the Luxembourg Open in Luxembourg. The second-seeded Indo-Chinese pair were knocked out from the tournament after a high-quality tussle that lasted one hour and

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s most successful female tennis player Sania Mirza missed out on earning her 44th WTA Tour title as she and her American partner Christina McHale fell short to top-seeded Japanese pair of Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara in the Finals of Tennis In The Land – a WTA 250 event held at Cleveland, United States.

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA The unseeded pairing of India’s Sania Mirza and her American partner Christina McHale has marched into the doubles Finals of the WTA 250 event Tennis in the Land after defeating another unseeded duo comprising of Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and American Catherine Harrison in straight sets 7-6, 6-2 at Cleveland, United States. The Indo-American team completed

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA The Indian tennis star Sania Mirza along with her American partner Christina McHale stormed into the doubles Semi-finals of the WTA 250 event Tennis in the Land after scoring an upset win over the third-seeded pairing of Czech Republic’s Lucie Hradecka and Shuai Zhang of China at Cleveland, United States. The Indo-American duo wrapped up

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By Saurabh Singh | AITA Indian team in the Women’s doubles Tennis discipline, comprising of four-time Olympian Sania Mirza and Olympics debutant Ankita Raina, lost their first round match against Ukrainian twins Nadiia Kichenok and Lyudmyla Kichenok 6-0, 6-7, 8-10 at court no 11 of the Ariake Tennis Park today. In yet another rollercoaster of a match for Team India

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