Final Up to date: January 27, 2023, 11:50 IST
Indian tennis legend Sania Mirza (Picture: Twitter/@MirzaSania)
Sania Mirza performed her final Grand Slam match, shedding within the Australian Open blended doubles remaining
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza capped off her superb Grand Slam profession with a runners-up end alongside ‘greatest good friend’ Rohan Bopanna within the Australian Open blended doubles remaining right here on Friday.
Pairing up together with her first-ever blended doubles accomplice Bopanna, the unseeded Indian duo went down 6-7(2) 2-6 to the Brazilian pair of Luisa Stefani and Rafael Mataos within the remaining on the Rod Laver Enviornment.
Sania had introduced that the WTA occasion in Dubai in February shall be her swansong.
Sania, who gained her first Grand Slam title on the Australian Open in 2009, gained the title with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi. She later gained the ladies’s doubles title at Melbourne Park in 2016 with Swiss nice Martina Hingis.
Sania has gained three girls’s doubles and as many blended doubles titles in her profession. Out of Sania’s six Grand Slams title, three are blended doubles trophies which she gained with Mahesh Bhupathi (2009 Australian Open, 2012 French Open) and Brazilian Bruno Soares (2014 US Open).
All three girls’s doubles titles got here with Swiss nice Martina Hingis. (Wimbledon 2015, US Open 2015 and Australian Open 2016).
Sania Mirza’s Profession Highlights –
- 2001 – Performed the primary occasion of her profession on ITF Circuit in India
- 2002 – Gained three singles titles and doubles title on ITF Circuit and gained Asian Video games bronze medal in blended doubles with Leander Paes
- 2003 – performed first WTA most important draw at Hyderabad and gained three singles and one doubles title on ITF Circuit
- 2004 – Gained first WTA doubles title a Hyderabad and gained six singles titles and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit
- 2005 – Grew to become the primary Indian lady to win a singles WTA Tour title and first Indian lady to succeed in a Grand Slam third spherical (at Australian Open). She additionally turned the primary Indian lady to crack the Prime 50 and was named WTA Newcomer of the 12 months
- 2006 – Gained two WTA doubles titles
- 2007 – Gained 4 WTA doubles titles and Ranked twenty seventh (career-high) within the WTA Singles Rankings
- 2008 – Made her debut at Olympic Video games (Beijing); within the first spherical singles outing, needed to retire on account of a wrist harm and first Indian lady in tennis to surpass $1 million in profession prize cash
- 2009 – Gained first Grand Slam title in blended doubles at Australian Open with Mahesh Bhupati together with one WTA doubles title and one singles title on ITF Circuit
- 2010 – Gained one WTA doubles title and gained one singles title on ITF Circuit
- 2011 – Gained three WTA doubles titles and Made doubles Prime 10 debut
- 2012 – Gained two WTA doubles titles and performed in London Olympics; reached the quarter-finals with Leander Paes
- 2013 – Performed first Prime 10 doubles season (completed No 9) and Gained 5 WTA doubles titles
- 2014 – Gained three WTA doubles titles, together with WTA Finals with Cara Black
- 2015 – First No. 1 season in doubles and have become the primary Indian lady to rise to No. 1 in both singles or doubles in addition to the primary Indian lady to elevate a Grand Slam doubles title, at Wimbledon
- 2016 – Kicked off the season by recording 19 consecutive wins with Martina Hingis and gained eight WTA doubles titles in addition to reached Rio Olympics semi-finals with Rohan Bopanna in blended doubles
- 2018 – Took a break from the skilled tour after the 2017 season
- 2020 – Made a comeback and gained the Hobart Worldwide alongside Nadiia Kichenok
- 2022 – Reached the semifinals on the WTA 1000 Qatar Open and the Italian Open in addition to the French Open third spherical, partnering Lucie Hradecká.
- 2023: Introduced her retirement with the final event being the WTA Dubai Tennis Championships in February. Ended her Grand Slam profession with a loss in Australian Open blended doubles remaining
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