Despite winning ATP Swiss Indoor tournament in Basel, Mahesh Bhupathi remains at the seventh position in the world doubles ranking, issued by the ATP on Monday.
Bhupathi, who with his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas won the tournament on Sunday, has 3295 points.
Leander Paes also remained static at the eighth spot. Meanwhile, Sania Mirza gained a […]
Indian doubles ace Leander Paes continues to be in top-10 zone in the world ATP doubles rankings but lost one place to be seventh with 3025 points.
Paes’ estranged partner Mahesh Bhupathi though gained one place to be 11th with 2790 points.
The women’s singles ace Sania Mirza maintained her 98th position in the singles but suffered […]
Riding on his sizzling performance in the Japan Open, Leander Paes gained two spots to be placed sixth in the ATP doubles World Rankings, issued on Monday.
Paes and Lukas Dlouhy reached the final of the Japan Open last week but lost the summit clash, missing out on the opportunity to pocket back-to-back ATP titles. Paes, […]
Sania Mirza’s lost 21 places to be placed 91st in the latest Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings released on Monday.
Sania, who is suffering from a wrist injury, was at the 70th position last week. The Indian has seen a massive dip in her rankings since undergoing a wrist surgery in April.
She made an […]
Sania Mirza today pulled out of the US Open, as she is yet to recover from a nagging wrist injury. The Hyederabadi player has been advised a three-week rest by her doctor while the fourth and last Grand Slam of the year kicks off from Monday.
“Sania Mirza has been advised complete rest for an initial […]
Sania Mirza’s WTA rankings fell further due to her woeful Olympic performance and as a result, she dropped two places to 65th in the singles chart of the latest WTA tennis rankings issued on Monday.
After getting a bye in the first round, the 21-year-old Indian was forced to retire from her second round match in […]
Injured Sania Mirza alongwith half-fit Sunitha Rao showed great courage by taking to the court in the women’s doubles tennis match during the second round of Beijing Olympics 2008 where they played the Russian duo of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina.
Although the Indian pair started of very well by taking the first three games, […]
India’s top-ranked women tennis player Sania Mirza retired from the first round of women’s singles event at the Beijing Olympics against Czech Iveta Benesova.
Sania was trailing 1-6, 1-2 when she retired from the match, as she aggravated an injury from the last year. The Czech holds a 3-0 record in her previous three meetings […]
India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will look to regain their old chemistry when they begin their quest for that elusive Olympic medal in men’s doubles as they take on talented Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon of France in the opening round at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre on Monday.
Despite being seeded, the duo has […]
Under fire for allowing tennis players Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao in casuals in the Olympic opening ceremony, the IOA on Saturday said the duo did not have enough time to change after a lengthy practice session that brought them to the event at the eleventh hour.
IOA President Suresh Kalmadi said both the tennis players […]
India cut a sorry figure in the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony with the female members of the contingent making it a veritable go-as-you-like with their contrasting outfits that made them look completely misfit for the occasion.
The tennis duo of Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao, attired in black trousers and practice jackets, looked completely out of […]
Sania Mirza received a tough draw in the singles competition at the Olympics. She will be facing her Czech nemesis Iveta Benesova in the first round and even if she clears this hurdle, greater danger awaits the Indian in the second round where former world number one Venus Williams is likely to cross swords with […]
Sania Mirza crashed out of the Nordea Nordic Light Open with a gruelling three-set loss to Czech Iveta Benesova in the second round. In an over two-hour contest, Benesova rallied to beat the sixth seeded Sania 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday.
The win not just ensured the 25-year-old Benesova a place in the quarter-finals of […]
Sania Mirza had mixed luck on the opening day of the Nordea Nordic Light Open as she advanced to the second round of the singles competition but made a stunning first-round exit from the doubles event here on Wednesday.
Seeded sixth in singles, Sania beat Frenchwoman Emilie Loit 6-3 6-2 to set up a clash with […]
Sania Mirza’s bad run on the tour took a heavy toll on her singles ranking as she dropped 15 places to plummet to 50 in the latest WTA list issued on Monday.
The Hyderabadi girl made a comeback after recovering from a wrist injury but is still struggling to get back to winning mode and crashed […]
Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek overcame a fighting Russian pair of Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva to book a semifinal berth in the $600,000 WTA East West Bank Classic tournament.
The Indo-American pair, seeded second, pipped the Russian duo 6-3, 1-6, 10-8 in one hour and 14 minutes in the quarter-finals of the Tier II hard […]
Sania Mirza once again lost in the second round stage or a tournament when she lost in straight sets to Meng Yuan at the $600,000 East West Bank Classic tournament.
The 16th seed Indian lost to her unseeded Chinese opponent 4-6, 3-6 in one and a half hour contest to crash out of the hard court […]
The Indo-American pair of Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek entered the quarterfinals of the USD 600,000 East West Bank Classic tournament in Los Angeles after defeating the Americal-Russian pair of Vania King and Alla Kudryavtseva in straight sets 6-3, 6-4.
They next face the Russian pair of Elena Versina and Vera Zvonareva in this hard court […]
Sania Mirza finally gained some semblance of form ahead of the last quarter of the current season as she entered the 2nd round at the East West Bank tournament at Los Angeles.
Sania, seeded 16th, beat her Czech opponent 6-3 6-4 in the first round of the hard court event in one hour and seven minutes.
She […]
Owing to her poor form in 2008, Sania Mirza has slipped up in the latest WTA rankings.
Her season has been continously been hampered by injuries and when fully recovered, she doesn’t have any match fitness to perform at her best level. This was evident in the last tournament she played, when she crashed out of […]