Sania Mirza Tournaments - 2017

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Sania Mirza Tournaments - 2017

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As per report, Sania will team up with American Bethanie Mattek-Sands for the year-opening WTA tournament in Brisbane ... Mostly for short-time as both of them having a successful partnership with their respective current Czech partners, Barbora Strycova and Lucie Safarova.
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Sania's latest pairing post Martina is not that successful. She is winning most matches but not the important ones. Agree, the pair needs time but doesn't look like love at first sight.
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Bethanie Mattek-Sands is clearly a much stronger partner for Sania. There could be more to this partnership than a short-term arrangement.
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Yes, I would love to see Sania and Bethanie team up. If I remember right, they had decent success whenever they played. Of course, Mattek-Sands had improved by leaps and bounds since then. If they do pair up regularly, they can definitely emulate the success of SanTina.

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As mentioned previously, this week Sania is reunited with Bethanie in Brisbane Internationals.

At $1M Brisbane WTA Internationals 2017, Australia

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) vs Alize Cornet (FRA)/ Elise Mertens (BEL)
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Dominating start for Sania and Mattek-Sands as they lost only 2 games in their first round win ... Next, they r facing pairing of Begu and Kasatkina.

At $1M Brisbane WTA Internationals 2017, Australia

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) bt Alize Cornet (FRA)/ Elise Mertens (BEL) 61 61

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) vs Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Daria Kasatkina (RUS)
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Begu and Kasatkina stretched favorite Sania-Bethanie to the match tie-break but our pair won the match tie-break comfortably for entering into the semis.

At $1M Brisbane WTA Internationals 2017, Australia

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) bt Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 64 46 10-5
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Ironically if they win the next match, Sania will lose the world #1 ranking to her partner here, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, after 91 successive weeks at the top.
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Sania-Bethanie r in the final with straight sets win over Hsieh-Siegemund in the semis ... As PKB mentioned in the previous post, ironically Sania is losing #1 ranking despite winning this match ... In the final, they r facing 2nd seed Russian pair.

At $1M Brisbane WTA Internationals 2017, Australia

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) 64 63

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) vs (2) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS)
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Sania started 2017 season with the title win with Bethanie Mattek-Sands ... They defeated 2nd seed Russians comfortably in the final of Brisbane WTA Internationals.

At $1M Brisbane WTA Internationals 2017, Australia

Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) bt (2) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) 62 63

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This week Sania is back with her Czech partner Barbora Strycova in preparation for Australian open.

At $776K Apia International Sydney 2017, Australia

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) vs Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Shuai Peng (CHN)
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I think Sania & BMS should stick together. They can win everything!
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The sad thing about Sania & M-Sands winning the title is that the latter had dethroned the former as #1.
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vatsal323 wrote:I think Sania & BMS should stick together. They can win everything!
True, but they each have other doubles partners currently. There would need to be a double-simultaneous-divorce for them to get together.
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PKBasu wrote:
vatsal323 wrote:I think Sania & BMS should stick together. They can win everything!
True, but they each have other doubles partners currently. There would need to be a double-simultaneous-divorce for them to get together.
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