Sunday 20 September 2015

Sania Mirza Tennis Career:

2013-2014: Top 5 doubles breakthrough;

Mirza kicked off her 2013 season with a title Brisbane alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the tournament itself. the pair then unexpectedly lost in the quarter-finals of the first round of Australia Open Sania though reached the quarter-finals of the 2013 Australian Open mixed double partnering Bob Bryan. Mattek-sands and mirza then won the doubles title at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.in February. They had to retire in their round of 16 match at the French Open after having won the first set 7-6 and down 305 in the second against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova They also lost in R16 at the Championships Sania then formed a brief successful partnership with Zheng jie from china winning a title at New Haven and reaching the semis at US Open losing losing out to Australia Casey Dellacqua and Ashleigh Barty 2-6, 2-6 Sania then partnered Cara Black for the rest of the season and the pair won their won first title in their first outing at Tokyo They won their second title in a row as they lifted the China Open trophy defeating top seeds and World No 1's Sara Errani Roberta Vinci 6-4, 6-4 en route. Sania partnered different players during 2013 and won 5 WTA Titles. 

Mirza be gen 2014 playing with Cara Black in the the 2014 Apia international Sydney Where they lost in the first round to Ajla Tomljanovic and jarmila Gajgodsova 6-3, 6-2. Her next tournament was the 2014 Australia Open seeded 6th. Mirza and Black reached the quarter-finals at the 2014 Australian Open -Women's Doubles before losing to top seed and eventual champions Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci She was more successful Horia Tecau of Romania Tecau and Mirza lost to Kristina Mladenovic and denial Nestor in the final.

Mirza and Black next competed in the 2014 Qatar Total Open and lost to the pairing of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Nadia Petrova in the quarter-finals. the pair lost in the first round of the 2014 Dubai Tennis Championships. to Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Safarova They reached their first WTA Tour doubles final of the year at the 2014 BNP paribas Open but lost to Hsieh Su-Wie and peng Shuai. Mirza and Black reached the semifinals of the 2014 Sony Open Tennis in miami before losing to wildcards martina Hingis and Sabine Lisicki They finished runners-up to Errani and Vinci once again in the 2014 porsche Tennis Grand Prix They won their first title of the year at the 2014 portugal Open, defeating Eva Hrdinova and Vareria Solovyeva in the final, 6-4, 6-3. 


Mirza and Black recorded three consecutive quarterfinal finished in the subsequent clay tournament, namely the 2014 Mutua Madrid Open, the 2014 international BNL d'Italia, and the 2014 French Open in the mixed doubles evnet at the 2014 French Open, Mirza and Horia Tecau lost in the second round to Timea Babos and Eric Butorac. Mirza begen grass season playing in the 2014 Aegon Classic She and Black lost to Raquel Kops-jones and Abigail Spears in the semifinals. At the 2014 Aegon international, they reached the quarter-finals. before losing to Chan Hao-Ching and Chan Yung-jan. the pair next competed at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships and lost in the second round to the unseeded pairing of Anastasia Pavyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova.

Mirza and Black next competed in the 2014 US Open and lost to the pairing of Martina Hingis and Flavia pennetta in the semifinals. Mirza played the mixed doubles in the 2014 US Open pairing with Bruno Soares and went on to become the 2014 US Open mixed Doubles Champions, thereby winning the third Mixed Doubles grand slam in her career.


Sania Mirza won a gold and bronze at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea She paired   with Saketh Myneni to beat China's Hsien Yin peng and also won a bronze medel in Women's doubles tournament, where she paired with prarthana Thombare. 


Black and Mirza won their biggest title together at the WTA finals defeating Su-Wei and peng shuai 6-1, 6-0 in the final It was the heaviest defeat ever witnessed in the end-of-season competition's doubles final which dates back 41 years to 1973, the year the WTA was founded encounters against Kveta Peschke Katerina Srebotnik and Raquel-jones Abigail Spears coming through 4-6, 7-5, 11-9 and 6-3, 2-6, 12-10 respectively This final would be the duo's final match as a team.

"It was great-we  saved the best for the last. I think today was our best match One of our best matches at least, and one of our best matches we played against them."Mirza told reporters after the win."To end this way, we great friend "But I've also found a great friend in her Almost like an older sister to me. I'm the oldest in my family, si I learned a lot from her on and off the court."

Sania Mirza participated in the international premier Tennis League staring on 28 November 2014, playing with the micromax india Aces alongside tennis legend Roger federer countryman Rohan Bopanna top Serbian Ana lvanovic and Frenchman Gael Monfils. She played all the mixed Doubles matches alonside Bopanna and partnered Federer who visited the country for his first match there in the New Dehli leg, much to her personal and played a key role for the India Aces to win the inaugual edition of the IPTL 2014. 

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