Sania Mirza /tennis Career:
2011-2012: Doubles specialisation;
Ranked at no 141, Mirza kiked-off her year with the ABS Classic in Auckland. she needed one more win to qualify for the tournament, sabine Lisicki. In doubles, she partnered Ranata Voracova of Czech Republic and reached the semifinals, and but lost to Katarina Srebotnik and Kvrta peschke. Going into the 2011 Australian Open, Mirza lost in the first round against Belgium's former World No 1 justine Henin in a tight three- setter, having won the first set 5-7 she went down 6-3, 6-1 in the next two she continued her partnership with Voracova for doubles but lost in the first round as well
She received wildcards to play in the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar ladies Open she made the second round of both events, falling to Ayumi Morita and jelena jankovic, respectively. she also was the premier mandatory events in march, Mirza made the second round in both. in dobles she won her first premier mandatory title at India Wells, with Vesnina, defeating Bethanine Mattek-sands and meghann shaughnessy.
Mirza particpated at the premier- level Family Circle Cup in Charleston. in singles, she made her first premier quarterfinal since san Diego in August 2007. in doubles, Mirza won the title with Vesnina: the indo-Russaian duo beat Mattek-Sands and Shaughnessy in the final for the second time this season. Mirza won her 11th WTA Tour Doubles Title and second of the year.
Next she also competed at the 2011 Mutua Madrid Open, losing in the first round against doubles partnere Elena Vesnina in doubles, with Vesnina she manages to go up to the third round Mirza took part in the 2011 Sparta Prague Open, but had to retire in her first round match aganist Aleksandra Krunic due to a back injury Next she played at the 2011 internationaux de Strasbourg, but suffered a first round lost Alize Cornet.
Mirza breezed through the first round of the french Open where she beat Kristina Baarrois in Straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. then in Round 2 , she lost to 12th seed Agnieszka Radwanska, 2-6, 4-6. In doubles, Mirza had what was probably the greatest highlight of her career- reaching the finals of a Grand Slam and she ended up runner-up with Vesnina losing out to Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka.
During the grass- court season Sania lost in the first round of the singles and doubles competition at the 2011 Aegon International. playing at the All England Lwan Tennis Club she came up with her personal best performance by reaching her first semifinals at the Championships alongside Vesnina losing out to Kvete Peschke katarina Santonja 3-6, 1-6. En route they beat 13th seeds Daniela Hantuchova and Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 6-3. in the round of 16 and the Spanish duo of Nuria Llagostera Vives and Arantxa parra Santonja 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the Virginie Razzano in a close three-setter 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-3.
She then could not cross the first round hurdles in her next five attempts in singles including the US Open where she lost yet another tight three setter 6-7,(5), 6-3, 6-1 to Israel's 23rd seed Shahar peer On two occasions Sania Scored2 wins in qualifying round defeated.
Heidi El Tabakh 6-0, 4-6, 6-0 at Rogers Cup and Vania King 7-6(4), 2-6, 7-6(5) at Cincinnati she however continued her good run in doubles competiton as she won the title at D.C partnering Yaroslava Shevdova defeating the 2nd seeded Olga Govortsova and alla Kudryavtseva pair of 6-2, 6-3, in the finals.
partnering vesting Sania entered souther California Open but the guo had to withdraw from their first round match against Elena Bovina and Zheng jie while leading 5-2 in the World no 1s Italian duo of Sara Errand and Roberta Vinci in three sets 2-6, 6-0, 10-7.
At the Flushing Meadow Sania and Vesnina lost in the pre- quarters to the Czech duo of Iveta Melter and Barbara Zahlavova Strycova 7-6(4), 7-6(5) having beaten samantha Crawford and Madison Keys, Vitalia Diatchenko and Olga Savchuk in strigh sets in their previous encounters After playing on the singles circuit regularly throughout the year Sania also reentered the top 60 in singles ranking in 2011.
Mirza kicked-off her 2012 season ranked 104th at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand. She lost a tough 6-1, 5-7, 3-6 first qualifying match against Coco Vandeqwghe As for doubles, she partnered Elena Vesnina and made it to the semifinals, losing to julia Gorges and Flavia pennetta. Her next tournamenst was in Sygney where she played doubles only alongside italian Roberta Vinci, but lost in round one.
Going in to the australian Oepn, Mirza was overpowered by tsvetana pironkova 4-6, 2-6, in the first round. In doubles Mirza reached her third Grand Slam semifinal, partnering Vesnina, where they fell to Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva, For the mixed doubles even, Mirza played alongside compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi and reached her 4th Grand Slam semifinal.
Mirza then represented India at the Fed Cup in Shenzhen, china where they were facing Hong Kong In singles, she defeated Zhang Ling 5-7, 6-0, 6-1. partnering with Isha Lakhani, the pair beat chan Wing-yau and Zhang 6-7(7), 6-1, 7-5. With this perfomance India advanced to the Fed cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group l for 2013. Mirza then played at the PTT Pattaya Open where she won her first WTA main draw match since the 2011 French Open - coming from a set down to upset Ayumi Morita ranked 47 spots higher , 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, in second round she beat anne Keothavong 6-4, 7-5 to enter in quarter- final, Where she lost to Su-Wei Hsieh in doubles with Australia Anastasia Rodionova she won her 13th WTA title: they defeated the Taiwanese sister Hao- ching Chan and Yung-jan Chan3-6, 6-1, 10-8.
Mirza then went to Doha to play at the Qatar Open Where she had withdraw from the singles qualifying event, due to playing pattaya doubles final. she lost in the second round of doubles with Vesnina Then, she Dubai, she was beaten by Aleksandra Wozniak in the first qualifying round. In doubles, Mirza and Vesnina are were runners-up aginst No.1 seeds Liezel Huber and Lisa Daniilidou in Round 1 of the BMW Malaysian Open.
Playing doubles at the premier-line up of India Wells, Miami and Charleston , Mirza reached the final, lost in round one and made the quarters, respectively, she also reached round two of singles in india Wells, She then would begin season at the 2012 Estoril Open, Where she was the semifinallist in doubles with Anastasia Rodiaonova. she lost in round 2 of doubles in Madrid and also in rome. Mirza returned on the singles circuit in May at the 2012 Brussels Open Where she won three goos matches- including her first 'double bagel' - in the qualifying competition, where she beat Lesia Tsurenko by 6-0, 6-0, who was ranked 87 sports highter than her She also won the doubles of the same evnet with Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
She then perticipated in the French Open in the Women's doubles with Mattek Sands and the Frech Open mixed doubles with Bhupathi In the doubles she suffered a first round shock defeat but found great Success in the French Open mixed doubles where she and Bhupathi won the Crown by defeating Santiago Gonzalez of mexico and kladia jans-lgnacik of poland 7-6,(7/3), 6-1 in the final on 7 jane 2012.
Sania and her partner Yaroslava Shvedova crashed out of the 2012 Aegon Classic with a straight-set defeat against lveta Benasova and Alla Kudryvtseva. Mirza then would go on to fallin in the qualifying singles and first round doubles at the 2012 Aegon international.
Sania and her American partner mettek-Sands advanced to the third round of the Women's doubles competition at the 2012 Wimbledon championships, where they fell to the Williams sister. On 26 june 2012,Sania Mirza was awarded a wild card entry hence confirming her participation in women's doubles event of the Londom Olympics. On 17 july 2012, Sania and her partner Bethanie Mettek- sands were ousted in the first round of WTA premier event in USA.
Mirza partnering Rushmi Chakravarthy in the Women's doubles competition at Olympics, bowed out losing to Chinese Taipei in a tight match she also lost in quarterfinals of mixed doubles with leander paes to Belarus in a tough encounter At the premier Mandatory evnet Montreal and Cincinati partnering Mettek-Sands , Mirza reached the quarterfinals and lost in round one of doubles, respectively.
In October 2012 the prize purse for female winners of the "Fenesta open National Tennis Chanpionship" was increased to be equal to that of male winners at Mirza,s suggestion to All India Tennis Association president Anil Khanna. Khanna also announced have the same prize money for both categroies women and men .
