Sania reaches third round in doubles, Bopanna crashes outJune 28th, 2008India’s Sania Mirza and American Bethanie Mattek cruised to the third round of the women’s doubles at Wimbledon with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Maria Kirilenko of Russia and Flavia Pennetta of Italy here Saturday.
Rohan Bopanna, though. lost his mixed doubles second round match as he and Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus went down to Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Lisa Raymond of the US 3-6, 6-7 (7-1). Sania advances in Wimbledon doublesJune 27th, 2008London, June 27 (IANS) It might be the end of the road for Sania Mirza in the singles, but the Indian, along with her American partner Bethanie Mattek, made an impressive start to theÃr doubles campaign routing English duo of Elena Baltacha and Naomi Cavady 6-4, 6-2, at the Wimbledon tennis Championships here at the All England Club. NAnother Indian Leander Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy have entered the third round of the men’s doubles, the ninth-seeded pair beating American-Australian combine of Eric Butorac and Ashley Fisher 6-3 7-6 (3) Thursday. Sania reaches quarter finals of singles and doubles at Japan OpenJanuary 22nd, 2008
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Currently, Sania Mirza is ranked 29th in the world, while seeded second at the ongoing Japan Open WTA event. Mirza reached the quarter finals of Japan Open by beating the Australian Casey Dellacqua in the second round. Dellacqua stretched Mirza up to three sets 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to reach the quarters.