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Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands on the Abu Dhabi Open (Twitter/Screengrab)
Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands crashed out within the opening spherical of the Abu Dhabi Open WTA 500 match
Sania Mirza and her American doubles companion Bethanie Mattek-Sands bowed out of the Abu Dhabi Open WTA 500 tennis match, which was the Indian star’s penultimate occasion of the profession.
Sania and Bethanie misplaced to Belgian-German pair Kirsten Flipkens and Laura Siegemund by a 3-6, 4-6 scoreline within the opening spherical of the ladies’s doubles on Monday.
WTA 500 ABU DHABI OPEN : Sania Mirza and companion Bethanie Mattek-Sands🇺🇲 goes down within the opening spherical [R1]Mirza🇮🇳/Mattek-Sands🇺🇲 l. Flipkens🇧🇪/Siegemund🇩🇪 : 3-6 4-6 pic.twitter.com/dRFRlVrCTb
— Indian Tennis Every day (ITD) (@IndTennisDaily) February 6, 2023
The loss brings six-time Grand Slam winner Sania nearer to her retirement as she has introduced to hold up her racquets after the Dubai Tennis Championships, which begins on February 27, the place one other American Madison Keys shall be her companion in ladies’s doubles.
Final month, Sania wrapped up her glittering Grand slam profession in Australian Open as blended doubles runner-up. The Indian ace and companion Rohan Bopanna suffered a 7-6(2), 6-2 loss by the hands of the all-Brazilian pair, Luisa Stefani and Rafael Matos.
Curiously, Sania claimed her first main in 2009 at Melbourne Park, when she paired up with Mahesh Bhupathi. And she or he ended her illustrious Grand Slam profession on the identical venue.
From 2009 to 2016, Sania Mirza received six Grand Slam doubles titles – three every within the ladies’s doubles and blended doubles. In 2015, she even turned the world’s No. 1 in ladies’s doubles rating.
“The journey of my skilled profession began in Melbourne in 2005 after I performed Serena Williams within the third spherical as an 18-year-old,” a teary-eyed Sania mentioned after the Australian Open blended doubles remaining.
“That was scarily sufficient 18 years in the past and I’ve had the privilege to come back again right here time and again and win some titles right here. There’s no higher place and no higher particular person to complete my Grand Slam profession with.”
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