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Opening this thread as Sania playes her first tournament of the year ( apart from grand slams) -

At Qatar Total Open

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND) / Cara Black (ZIM) bye
[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,9) / Cara Black (ZIM,13) vs. Karolina Pliskova (CZE,75) / Kristyna Pliskova (CZE,81)

Looks an easy match first up.

to this years thread. No 1 doubles rank for the year is what i wish for

sameerph wrote:Opening this thread as Sania playes her first tournament of the year ( apart from grand slams) -

For the record, Sania-Cara did play the Apia International in Sydney from Jan 5-11
[R1] [WC] Gajdosova/Tomljanovic b [3] Black/Mirza 6-3,6-2

Black/Mirza won their R2 match against the Pliskova twins 4-6 6-2 10-4.

may be the twins played better than their ranking...

At Qatar Total Open

[R2] (4) Sania Mirza (IND,9) / Cara Black (ZIM,13) d. Karolina Pliskova (CZE,75) / Kristyna Pliskova (CZE,81) 46 62 10-4

Next,

[QF] (4) Sania Mirza (IND,9) / Cara Black (ZIM,13) vs. (7) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS,33)/ Nadia Petrova (RUS,8)

Tough match against the Russian pair. Petrova was a finalist last year at Doha along with Srebotnik.

[QF] (4) Sania Mirza (IND,9) / Cara Black (ZIM,13) l. (7) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS,33) / Nadia Petrova (RUS,8) 64 46 01(12)

Lost a tough one in the Match tie-break 12-14. They must have had some match points on the way.......

for next week.....

I saw this match on line and there were no match points for Sania and Cara, that I can remember. They came back from a big deficit, in the tie-breaker, but could not win some points at the end. Sania's serve raised it's ugly head towards the end of the second set. The opponents had a coach come out and gesture madly at them, but Sania had no one come out and tell her not to keep banging the cross-court all the time, and to send a blast at Nadia the lanky Russian lurking in the lane. She kept poaching the cross-court returns of Sania. Sania at the baseline is a head-scrather in doubles, but it seems to work for her in someway. I think someone on her team should have been an adviser for the moment. A very exciting match for sure and a supporting crowd was on hand. Always a pleasure to see an Indian on the court!

Sania and Cara had 2 match points (10-9 and 12-11), both of them were saved from brilliant play by the Russians,Overall It

was a match clearly for sania and cara to win but unfortunately they didn't have the same touch as they had shown in 2013

in beijing and tokyo,
Hopefully they will find the winning formula in Dubai
Sania and cara were tagetting petrova in the 1st set, it was the result in their favour but 2nd set was completely opposite since

Nadia took Medical- Time Out.
In the 3rd Set Nadia-Pavluchenkova had 9-4 lead only to be vanished by brilliant play from Cara and Sania but it was the luck

in the end
Huge Cheers for Sania by Crowd, Its really heartening to see such support in Doubles:)
Sania for Dubai and Recover well from Fever

Sania/Cara lost a close R1 match against Hlavackova/Safarova in STB in Dubai 6-7(5) 7-5 9-11.

In Stuttgart, (2)Sania/Cara bt Kerber/Petkovic 4-6 6-2 10-7 in R1.

Sania / Cara needs a good run in this tournament...

Another close win for Sania & Cara.

At $710K Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany (WTA Premier) (Red clay)

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Kristina Barrois (GER)/ Annika Beck (GER) 63 26 10-8

Just wondering has super tie break made doubles more interesting or more unfair? Too many close encounters ..

or is it just because 3rd set is just a tie breaker one doesn't loose hope after loosing first set. The fight back is not that tough...

Sometimes I feel a tiebreak in any sport is more of luck rather than skill(like the toss of a coin). But someone has to lose.