Sania Mirza Tournaments -2014

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Sania Mirza Tournaments -2014

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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.
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:goodluck: to this years thread. No 1 doubles rank for the year :D is what i wish for
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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
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Black/Mirza won their R2 match against the Pliskova twins 4-6 6-2 10-4.
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may be the twins played better than their ranking...
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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.
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[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....... :-(

:goodluck: for next week.....
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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!
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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:)
:goodluck: Sania for Dubai and Recover well from Fever
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Sania/Cara lost a close R1 match against Hlavackova/Safarova in STB in Dubai 6-7(5) 7-5 9-11.
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In Stuttgart, (2)Sania/Cara bt Kerber/Petkovic 4-6 6-2 10-7 in R1.
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Sania / Cara needs a good run in this tournament...
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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
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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...
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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.
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