A profligate Sania Mirza squandered four match points to crash out of the women’s singles event of the Wimbledon Championships as she lost her second round match 0-6 6-4 7-9 to qualifier Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez here today.
The 21-year-old Indian did manage to overcame a sloppy start after losing the first set on love but awful misses on easy points proved fatal for her.

London: In sport, as in life, everybody wants to be somewhere else, no matter where they happen to be.

But in the unforgiving cauldron of competition, “you must run twice as fast” to get anywhere else, as Alice found out in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass.

I spoke to the most controversial woman in tennis yesterday.

You may not have heard much about Sania Mirza but she has spent almost as much time being threatened with court as playing on one.

London, June 25: Until a few months ago off-court controversies had infuriated Sania Mirza to such an extent that she vowed never to play on Indian courts again but now the tennis ace says she actually enjoyed the experience as it helped her grow.