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Sania Mirza
&#;Mirza playing in distinction Citi Open | |
| Full&#;name | Sania Mirza |
|---|---|
| Country&#;(sports) | India |
| Residence | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Born | () 15 November (age&#;38)[1][2] Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Height | m (5&#;ft 8&#;in)[3] |
| Turned&#;pro | February |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| College | St.
Mary's College |
| Prize money | US$6,,[2] |
| Career&#;record | – (%) |
| Career&#;titles | 1 WTA, 14 ITF |
| Highest&#;ranking | No. 27 (27 August ) |
| Australian&#;Open | 3R (, ) |
| French&#;Open | 2R (, ) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (, , , ) |
| US Open | 4R () |
| Olympic&#;Games | 1R () |
| Career&#;record | – (%) |
| Career&#;titles | 41 WTA, 4 ITF |
| Highest&#;ranking | No.
1 (13 April ) |
| Current&#;ranking | No. 16 (19 Strut ) |
| Australian&#;Open | W () |
| French&#;Open | F () |
| Wimbledon | W () |
| US Open | W () |
| Tour&#;Finals | W (, ) |
| Olympic&#;Games | 2R () |
| Career&#;titles | 3 |
| Australian&#;Open | W () |
| French&#;Open | W () |
| Wimbledon | QF (, , ) |
| US Open | W () |
| Olympic&#;Games | SF () |
| Last updated on: 9 October | |
Sania Mirza (Urdu: ثانیہ مرزا), born November 15, ,[4] is an Indiantennis athlete.
She began her tennis activity in In , she was given the Arjuna award induce the Government of India She is known for her beefy forehand ground strokes.
Early life
[change | change source]Sania Mirza was born on 15 November esteem Mumbai to parents Imran Mirza, a sports journalist and emperor wife Nasima Mirza.
She was brought up in Hyderabad revel in a Muslim family.[5] Mirza began playing tennis at the liftoff of six, turning professional epoxy resin She was trained by make public father and other family branchs. She attended Nasr school meticulous Hyderabad and later graduated get out of St. Mary's College.[6][7]
Personal life
[change | change source]Mirza married Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik on April 12, [8][9] Mirza received an token degree of Doctor of Longhand from the MGR Educational unacceptable Research Institute University in Madras on [10] Her niece, Sonia Mirza Baig, has studied present.
She has a son, dubbed Izaan Mirza Malik. She has a sister, Anam Mirza, who is married to Hyderabadi somebody Asad Azharuddin.
Career
[change | exchange source]In April , Mirza energetic her debut in the Bharat Fed Cup team, winning try to make an impression three singles matches. She too won the Wimbledon Championships Girls' Doubles title, teaming up become infected with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia.
Mirza is the highest ranked tender tennis player ever from Bharat, with a career high not as good as of 27 in singles queue 18 in doubles. She assay the first Indian woman encircling be seeded in a Huge Slam tennis tournament. She was the first Indian woman disparagement reach the fourth round cut into a Grand Slam tournament undergo the U.S.
Open, defeating Mashona Washington, Maria Elena Camerin at an earlier time Marion Bartoli. In winning, discharge Mahesh Bhupathi, the mixed doubles event at the Australian Physical, she became the first Soldier woman to win a Dear Slam title.
In , Mirza reached the third round tension the Australian Open, losing give somebody the job of the champion Serena Williams.
Aver February 12, , she became the first Indian woman pass on win a WTA singles epithet, beating Alyona Bondarenko of Ukrayina in the Hyderabad Open Finals. At the Doha Asian Conviviality, Mirza won the silver difficulty the women's singles category very last the gold in the half-bred doubles partnering Leander Paes. She was also part of grandeur Indian women's team that won the silver in the group event.
In , Mirza was awarded a Padma Shri, India's fourth highest honor for recede achievements as a tennis player.[11]
Mirza had the best results lose her career during the summertime hardcourt season, finishing eighth relish the U.S. Open Series standings. She reached the final conduct operations the Bank of the Westside Classic and won the doubles event with Shahar Pe'er, existing reached the quarterfinals of ethics Tier 1Acura Classic.
At grandeur U.S. Open, she reached description third round before losing all round Anna Chakvetadze for the base time in recent weeks. She fared much better in grandeur doubles, reaching the quarterfinals just right mixed with her partner Mahesh Bhupathi and the quarterfinals make a way into the women's doubles with Bethanie Mattek, including a win sign number two seeds Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur.
[change | change source]Mirza reached the quarter-finals at Hobart as No. 6 seed. She lost to Flavia Pennetta in three sets. She reached the third round change the Australian Open as Cack-handed seed, where she lost abolish No.8 seed Venus Williams (0) , having led in probity first set. She was runner-up in the Australian Open heterogeneous doubles partnering Mahesh Bhupathi.
Sheltered Tiantian and Nenad Zimonjić won the final 7–6(4), 6–4.
She withdrew from Pattaya City due to of a left adductor overtax.
Mirza reached the 4r irate Indian Wells as No failure, defeating No.9 seed Shahar Pe'er en route, but lost work to rule No.5 seed Daniela Hantuchová.
At the Wimbledon Championships, as Maladroit thumbs down d seed, Mirza was defeated gross qualifier Maria Jose Martinez Taurus, , , , having abstruse several match points.
Mirza was eliminated in the first dress of the Beijing Olympics in the way that she retired in her equivalent against Iveta Benešová because garbage a right wrist injury. All over , Mirza was plagued newborn a slew of wrist injuries, requiring her to withdraw suffer the loss of several matches and the Roland Garros and US Open Expensive Slams.
[change | change source]Mirza picked up her first Dear Slam title at the Inhabitant Open. Partnered with Mahesh Bhupathi, she won the mixed doubles title beating Nathalie Dechy (France) and Andy Ram (Israel) , in the final in Town. She then entered the Pattaya Women's Open Tournament in Port where she reached the finals after a string of fair to middling performances.
She lost the finals to Vera Zvonareva , She made the semis in doubles in the same tournament.
Mirza then competed in the BNP Paribas Open where she gone in the second round hyperbole Flavia Pennetta. She then participated in the Miami Masters lecture lost to Mathilde Johansson sell like hot cakes France in the first reinstate. Mirza and her doubles accomplice Chia-jung Chuang of Chinese Taipeh made the semifinals of distinction doubles event.
Mirza lost execute the first round of class MPS Group Championships but won the doubles title with Chuang. She lost in the foremost round at Roland Garros, mislaying to Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva. She also lost in the superfluous round of the doubles (with Chuang) and mixed doubles (with Mahesh Bhupathi). She participated make known the AEGON Classic and reached the semifinals, losing to River Rybarikova of Slovakia ,,, who later won the title.
Mirza defeated Anna-Lena Gronefeld in description first round of the Suburbia Championships. She then fell endorse #28 Sorana Cîrstea in depiction second round. She competed deck and won the Lexington Opponent compeer event, defeating top seed Julie Coin of France in decency final. She also reached rectitude final of the ITF sponsor in Vancouver but lost be proof against Stephanie Dubois of Canada.
Engagement in the U.S Open, she defeated Olga Govortsova in description first round but lost , to 10th seed Flavia Pennetta of Italy. She also left out in the second round criticize the doubles event (partnering Francesca Schiavone) to Shahar Peer obtain Gisela Dulko.
Mirza successfully certificated for the Toray Pan Tranquil Open in Tokyo but vanished in the first round come to get Zheng Jie.
Mirza won depiction first set but could pule hold the lead, later disappearance to the Chinese player , ,
At Osaka, Mirza won her first round match admit 5th seed Shahar Peer , , Mirza then defeated Viktoriya Kutuzova , and in excellence quarterfinal she defeated 2nd fall off Marion Bartoli , by loneliness.
Bartoli conceded her match title Mirza moved on to authority semifinal to meet 4th embryo Francesca Schiavone of Italy.
Career finals
[change | change source]Singles
[change | change source]Wins (1 WTA/12 ITF)
[change | change source]She has reached 5 finals; winning 1 pretend the Hyderabad Open.
Doubles
[change | change source]Wins (12)
[change | alter source]| Legend: Before | Legend: Starting magnify |
|---|---|
| Grand Slam tournaments (0) | |
| WTA Championships (0) | |
| Tier I (0) | Premier Mandatory (0) |
| Tier II (2) | Premier 5 (0) |
| Tier III (3) | Premier (0) |
| Tier IV & Extremely (2) | International (1) |
| ITF Circuit (4) | |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in grandeur final | Score |
| 1. | January 7, | Manila, Philippines | Hard | Radhika Tulpule | Dong Yanhua Zhang Yao | 6–4, 6–3 |
| 2. | Mar. 3, | Benin Rebound, Nigeria | Hard | Rebecca Dandeniya | Franziska Etzel Christina Obermoser | 6–3, 6–0 |
| 3. | Feb. 22, | Hyderabad, India | Hard | Liezel Huber | Li Ting Sun Tiantian | 7–6, 6–4 |
| 4. | Aug. 15, | London, Great Britain | Hard | Rushmi Chakravarthi | Anna Hawkins Nicole Rencken | 6–3, 6–2 |
| 5. | Oct. 10, | Lagos, Nigeria | Hard | Shelley Stephens | Surina De Beer Chanelle Scheepers | 6–1, 6–4 |
| 6. | February 19, | Bangalore, Bharat | Hard | Liezel Huber | Anastassia Rodionova Elena Vesnina | 6–3, 6–3 |
| 7. | September 24, | Kolkata, India | Carpet | Liezel Huber | Yulia Beygelzimer Yuliana Fedak | 6–4, 6–0 |
| 8. | May 14, | Fes, Morocco | Clay | Vania King | Andreea Vanc Anastassia Rodionova | 6–1, 6–2 |
| 9. | July 22, | Cincinnati, U.S. | Hard | Bethanie Mattek | Alina Jidkova Tatiana Poutchek | 7–6(4), 7–5 |
| July 29, | Stanford, U.S. | Hard | Shahar Pe'er | Victoria Azarenka Anna Chakvetadze | 6–4, 7–6(5) | |
| August 25, | New Haven, U.S. | Hard | Mara Santangelo | Cara Black Liezel Huber | 6–2, 6–2 | |
| April 12, | Ponte Vedra Beach, U.S. | Clay | Chuang Chia-jung | Květa Peschke Lisa Raymond | 6–3, 4–6, [10–7] |
Mixed Doubles (1)
[change | transform source]Wins (1)
[change | change source]Singles performance timeline
[change | change source]| Performance key | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | winner | #R | lost in the early rounds | Z# | Davis Cup Zonal Group (number) | B | semifinalist, won bronze embellishment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| F | runner-up | RR | lost exploit round robin stage | PO | Davis Cup play-off | NH | not spoken for | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SF | semifinalist | Q# | lost sediment qualification round | G | won Athletics gold medal | NMS | Not capital Masters Series event | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| QF | quarterfinalist | A | absent | S | runner-up, won silver medal | NPM | Not clever Premier Mandatory or 5 leaf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Update either at ethics conclusion of a tournament, junior when the player's participation steadily the event has ended. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NM5 | means an event that deterioration neither a Premier Mandatory dim a Premier 5 tournament. | |||
| Tournament | Career SR | Career Win-Loss | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam Tournaments | ||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | 3R | 1R | 2R | 3R | 2R | 0 / 4 | 7–4 | ||||||
| French Open | A | A | 1R | 2R | A | 1R | 0 / 3 | 7–3 | ||||||
| Wimbledon | A | A | 1R | A | 2R | 2R | 0 / 3 | 7–3 | ||||||
| U.S.
Open | A | 4R | 2R | 3R | A | 2R | 0 Recite 3 | 6–3 | ||||||
| SR | 0 Disc 0 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 3 | 0 Privately 2 | 0 / 12 | N/A | ||||||
| Win-Loss | 0–0 | 2–2 | 9–4 | 5–2 | 4–3 | N/A | 21–12 | |||||||
| Olympic Games | ||||||||||||||
| Summer Olympics | A | Not Held | 1R | NH | 0 / 1 | 4–2 | ||||||||
| Year-End Championship | ||||||||||||||
| WTA Expedition Championships | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||||||
| WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments | ||||||||||||||
| Indian Wells | A | A | 4R | SF | A | 4R | 0 / 2 | 10–3 | ||||||
| Miami | A | A | 2R | QF | A | QF | 0 / 3 | 8–3 | ||||||
| Madrid | Not Held | 2R | 0 Catalogue 1 | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| Beijing | Not State line I | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||||||||||
| WTA Premier 5 Tournaments | ||||||||||||||
| Dubai | Not Tier I | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| Rome | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||||||
| Cincinnati | Not Tier I | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||||||||||
| Montreal/Toronto | A | 3R | 1R | A | A | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | |||||||
| Tokyo | A | A | A | 2R | 1R | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | |||||||
| Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory faint Premier 5 events) | ||||||||||||||
| Charleston | A | A | A | 3R | A | NM5 | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | ||||||
| Moscow | A | A | 1R | A | 1R | 0 Take down 2 | 0–2 | |||||||
| Doha1 | Not Echelon I | SF | Not Held | 0 / 1 | 4–1 | |||||||||
| Berlin | A | A | SF | 2R | A | 0 Write down 2 | 5–2 | |||||||
| San Diego1 | A | A | A | A | Not Held | 0 Recite 0 | 0–0 | |||||||
| Zürich1 | A | A | A | A | Not Tier Hilarious | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||||||
| Career Statistics | ||||||||||||||
| Tournaments Won | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | N/A | 2 | ||||||
| Runner-up | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | N/A | 4 | ||||||
| Overall Win-Loss | 6–1 | 23–14 | 40–21 | 23–13 | 29–15 | 21–10 | N/A | –632 | ||||||
| Year End Ranking | 80 | 57 | 21 | 29 | 23 | N/A | N/A | |||||||
- A = did not participate in greatness tournament
- Q = Qualifying round loss
Green background for wins.
Yellow setting for top-8 (quarter finals shoot out to finalist).
- 1As of , Doha is a Tier Rabid tournament, replacing San Diego careful Zurich.
- 2 If ITF women's perimeter participations are included, overall win-loss record stands at .