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By – Sujoy Roy The excitement mounts as the WTA Mumbai Open, a 125K Series event, makes its highly anticipated return after a six-year hiatus. From February 5 to 11, the Cricket Club of India’s hard courts will host this prestigious tournament, providing a platform for India’s top-ranked women players to shine on the international stage. Among the participants are

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Excitement is gearing up ahead of the WTA 250 event, as Chennai is all set to welcome the mega tournament in just ten days. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K Stalin handed over the approval letter from the TN Government to hold the event to Indian Tennis legend Vijay Amritraj, who is also the president of Tamil Nadu Tennis Association. This

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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 Radhika Aggarwal | AITA India’s Ankita Raina and Ekaterine Gorgodze from Georgia, pitted against the team of Taiwanese professional Hsieh Yu-chieh and Germany’s Mona Barthel, in the Quarter-finals of the WTA 125 Chicago event, lost in straight sets 7-5, 6-2 in one hour and 10 minutes long duel. The winning Taiwanese-German duo won a total of 70 points while

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Pune’s Wildcard Tejasvi Kate upsets fourth seed Van Poppel to enter final round qualifying at $ 25000 KPIT –MSLTA  ITF WTT Cup tennis championships Wild card entrant and local girl Tejasvi Kate knocked out fourth seeded Emma Van Poppel of Netherlands 4-6,6-2 ,10-5 to enter the final round qualifying of the $ 25000 KPIT –MSLTA  ITF WTT Cup tennis championships

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Sania Mirza continued her good form as she along with her partner Andreja Klepac of Slovenia progressed to the semi-finals of the Qatar Total Open on Wednesday. Sania and her women’s doubles partner Klepac registered a comfortable 6-2, 6-0 win in straight sets over fourth-seeded Anna Blinkova and Gabriela Dabrowski in the quarter-finals of the tournament. Earlier on Monday, Sania

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