Sania Mirza, Tennis Player, - Biography,
Indian tennis player.
Height
1.73 m (5' 8")
Weight 126 lb. (57 kg)
Born November
15, 1986, Mumbai, India
A
pic of her
Plays Right (two-handed backhand) Career Prize Money $569,759
Singles Career record: 152-65 Career titles: 1 Highest ranking: 31 (October
10, 2005)
Grand Slam results Australian Open 3r (2005), 2r (2007) French Open
1r (2005, 2006) Wimbledon 2r (2005) U.S. Open 4r (2005)
Doubles Career record:
92-48 Career titles: 3 Highest ranking: No. 24 (November 13, 2006)
Sania
Mirza is a Indian tennis player. She was born in Mumbai & now lives in Hyderabad.
Coached by her father Imran Mirza, she began playing tennis at the age of six,
turning professional in 2003. She was the highest ranked female tennis player
ever from India, with career high rankings of number 31 in singles & 24 in
doubles. She is now ranked 48th in singles & 23rd in doubles as of January
29th 2007.
She became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 US Open, defeating Mashona Washington, Maria Elena Camerin & Marion Bartoli. In 2004, she finished runner up at the Asian Tennis Championship .In 2005 Mirza reached the third round of Australian Open, losing to eventual champion Serena Williams.On February 12, 2005, she became the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title defeating Alyona Bondarenko of Ukraine in the Hyderabad Open Finals.
As of September 2006, Sania has notched up three top 10 wins against Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova & Martina Hingis.
Sania won the Wimbledon Championships Girls' Doubles title in 2003, teaming up with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia.
Recently in the Doha Asian Games 2006, Sania
won the silver in the women's singles category & the gold in the mixed doubles
partnering Leander Paes. She also was a part of the Indian women's team that won
the silver in the team event. Has stated that one of her best friends is fellow
WTA tour player, Anna Chakvetadze.
Career highlights
2006 15th Asian
games, Doha, Qatar: Mixed doubles - won gold medal for India partnering Leander
Paes. They beat Japan's Satoshi Iwabuchi & Akiko Morigami 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
2006
15th Asian games, Doha, Qatar: Singles - won silver medal loosing to China's Jie
Zheng 4-6, 6-1, 1-6
2006 15th Asian games, Doha, Qatar: Team Tennis - won
Silver medal for India pairing Shikha Uberoi. They lost to Chinese Taipei team.
2006 Sunfeast Kolkata Open singles: reached semi-finals, losing to eventual
champion, Martina Hingis 6-1 6-0
2006 Sunfeast Kolkata Open doubles: Won the
tournament partnering Liezel Huber. They beat Yulia Fedak & Yuliana Beygelzeimer
6-4 6-0
2006 Bangalore Open (Hyderabad Open in the previous years) doubles:
Won the tournament (partnering with Liezel Huber)
2006 Won Silver medal in
Qatar Asian Games 2006 Women's singles final & Gold medal in mixed doubles
(partnering with Leander Paes)
2005 Japan Open: reaches the semi-finals of
women's singles & doubles (partnering Shahar Peer of Israel); reaches her
highest doubles ranking of 114.
2005 US Open: reaches 4th round by defeating
Marion Bartoli of France in straight sets (7-6(4), 6-4) before losing to top seed
Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-1. Voted Best Player of the day on the 3rd day for winning
her 2nd round match despite bleeding toes.
2005 Forest Hills Women's Tennis
Classic, New York: reaches her second WTA final but fails to win
2005 Acura
Classic: upsets Nadia Petrova in 2nd round but loses in the third round to Akiko
Morigami of Japan (2-6,6-4,4-6). By beating the 8th-ranked Petrova, she breaks
into top 50 in world rankings for the first time ever.
2005 Dubai Tennis Championships:
Upset reigning US Open Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-2 in 2nd round to reach
the quarter-finals
2005 Hyderabad Open singles: Won the tournament defeating
Alyona Bondarenko of Ukraine 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 in the final & became the first
Indian woman to capture a WTA singles title.
2005 Australian Open singles:
3rd round: Became first Indian woman to reach the 3rd round of a Grand Slam tournament.
2004 Hyderabad Open doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Liezel Huber)
to become the youngest Indian to win a WTA or ATP tour title & the first Indian
woman to capture a WTA tour title. entered the singles as wild card but lost in
the first round to the eventual winner Nicole Pratt.
2003 Wimbledon Championships
Juniors doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Alisa Kleybanova) to become
the youngest Indian & the first Indian woman to win a junior Grand Slam title.
2003 Afro-Asian Games: won four gold medals - Women's singles, Mixed doubles
(with Mahesh Bhupathi), Women's doubles & Women's team events (the last two
golds in partnership with Rushmi Chakravarthy)
This site was written in February 2007
Some pictures of Sania Mirza not spelt Sanya Mirza, or Sania Mirsa
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