By Jilawatan

Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina continued their good run at the Madrid Open, storming into the quarter-finals after notching up a straight-set win over Nadia Petrova and Anastasia Rodionova.

The unseeded Indo-Russian combination recorded a 6-3 7-5 win over the Russian-Australian pair in the second round of the euro 3,500,000 clay court event.

By Jilawatan

India’s Sania Mirza has entered her first quarterfinals at a WTA Tour tournament after three and a half years when she beat German wildcard Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-4, at the Family Circle Cup here.

By Jilawatan

Centre court queen Maria Sharapova, the 2004 champion, has been sensationally dumped out of Wimbledon losing 6-2 3-6 6-4 to Argentina’s Gisela Dulko in the second round.

Dulko, who needed five knife-edge match points to seal victory after 2hrs 13min, goes on to face Russian Nadia Petrova for a place in the last 16.

By Jilawatan

Centre court queen Maria Sharapova, the 2004 champion, was sensationally dumped out of Wimbledon on Wednesday losing 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 to Argentina’s Gisela Dulko in the second round.

In another match Indian number one Sania Mirza tumbled out in the second round, losing 6-4, 6-4 to Romanian number 28 seed Sorana Cirstea.

By Jilawatan

India’s Sania Mirza and Chinese Taipei’s (Taiwan) Chia-Jung Chuang stormed into the second round of the 3,500,000 euros Madrid Masters ten
nis with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Argentina’s Ma Emilia Salerni and Spain’s Silvia Soler Espinosa.