Tag: Sania Mirza

In a significant development, Sania Mirza has agreed to play in the upcoming Asian Games, two days after AITA announced that they would allow top players to miss the Incheon event, keeping in mind their requirements on the professional circuit

Wimbledon: Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza defied all odds to win her maiden women’s doubles title at a Grand Slam event by clinching the Wimbledon crown with Swiss veteran Martina Hingis here. The top seeded duo made a remarkable comeback to beat Russian second seeds Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 5-7, 7-6(4), 7-5 in two […]

Wimbledon: It was a mixed day for Indian tennis players at Wimbledon as veteran Leander Paes entered the mixed doubles semi-final yesterday but Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna bowed out of the lone grass court major in their respective categories. Paes, partnering Swiss ace Martina Hingis, completely thrashed their opponents to enter the mixed doubles […]

Wimbledon: Indo-Swiss tennis pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis came out with a clinical performance to enter the women’s doubles semi-finals of Wimbledon here. The top seeds needed only an hour and 19 minutes to win 7-5, 6-3 in a quarter-final tie against ninth seeds Australia’s Casey Dellacqua and Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova on Court […]

Paris: India’s Sania Mirza and her Brazilian partner Bruno Soares crashed out of the French Open after losing in the first round of the mixed doubles match yesterday. Germany’s Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer stunned the top-seeded Indo-Brazilian pair 6-2, 6-2 to enter the second round of the tournament. Groenefeld-Rojer showed their dominance right […]

Indian tennis stars Leander Paes and Sania Mirza reached the mixed doubles semi-finals after they won their respective matches at the Australian Open here today

Melbourne, Jan 21 (IANS) Sania Mirza and Leander Paes made it a pleasant Wednesday for Indian tennis fans, winning their respective opening round doubles matches in the Australian Open here. The Indo-South African pair of Leander Paes and Raven Klaasen beat American pair of Scott Lipsky and Rajeev Ram 6-4, 7-6 (6) in the first […]

Hyderabad: Terming February 14, the day of the Pulwama attack when over 40 CRPF jawans were killed, as black day for India, tennis star Sania Mirza on Sunday called for praying for peace instead of spreading more hate. Sania, who is married to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, said that CRPF jawans who lost their lives […]

New Delhi: Pakistan’s humiliating loss to India in their World Cup encounter at Old Trafford on Sunday hasn’t gone down well with the fans and more than the result, the supporters have complained about the lack of intent. In fact, some fans also released photos of players like Shoaib Malik, Imad Wasim and Wahab Riaz […]

Mumbai: Tennis star Sania Mirza will join broadcasters Star Sports as an expert to analyse the day-to-day action of the ongoing Wimbledon for fans across the country. Sania, a six-time grand slam winner and former Wimbledon double’s champion, brings her wealth of knowledge having played the singles, doubles and mixed doubles formats and will join […]

New Delhi: Star Indian tennis player Sania Mirza says she has achieved everything in her path-breaking career and has “nothing to prove” in her second innings, which is likely to begin by January 2020. In her quest to make a comeback to competitive tennis after more than two years after becoming a mother, the 32-year-old […]

Visakhapatnam: In a gaffe that left the city red-faced, the organisers of National Sports Day celebrations here mistook P.T. Usha for tennis star Sania Mirza and erected a poster with a photograph of the latter bearing the name of the legendary athlete. The poster, put up near the Submarine museum on Beach Road, went viral […]

Hyderabad: Tennis star Sania Mirza’s sister Anam Mirza is set to tie the knot with former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin’s son Mohammad Asaduddin in December this year. Sania Mirza has confirmed that her younger sister will be marrying Asaduddin. The Mirzas recently returned from Paris after a bachelorette trip. The confirmation came after months […]

New Delhi: Tennis star Sania Mirza was on Tuesday named in the Indian five-member Fed Cup squad, as she plots her return to the game after a break. The team also features the country’s top singles player Ankita Raina. Riya Bhatia (379), Rutuja Bhosale (466) and Karman Kaur Thandi (568) are also part of the […]

Hobart: Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza made a winning return to the WTA circuit by advancing to the women’s doubles quarterfinals of the Hobart International Tournament here on Tuesday. Returning to the court after two years, Sania and her Ukrainian partner Nadia Kichenok prevailed 2-6 7-6 (3) 10-3 over Oksana Kalashnikova of Georgia and Japan’s […]