Australian Open 2006 (Bhupathi-Hingis win MxD title)

[jayakris]

[R1] Sania vs Azarenka

First set ..

On serve till 4-3

4-3 VA down 15-40 and SM breaks at 30-40 ... 5-3 Sania leads!
5-3 Sania broken at 30-40
5-4 VA serves
5-5 SM serves a DF at break pt ..
5-6 VA serves for the set .. and sania breaks back at 15-40 !!!!
6-6 tiebreaker starting

0-1 down .. 2-1 (takes 2 minis!) .. 4-1 (serves 2) .. 4-3 .. 4-4 (loses a mini) .. 5-4 .. 5-5 .. 6-5 (takes a mini) .. 6-6 (wastes a set pt on own serve) .. 7-6 .. sania holds .. (second set pt on VA serve) .. Got it!

7-6(6) 0-0 !!! Sania leads.

Jay

[shakes1974]

i'm not able to log into the chat room ...is it on ?

[shakes1974]

for those who are able to see the match, how's the play ?

[jayakris]

Nobody is seeing it on TV ... not in India it seems .. no live streaming for any of us at the chatroom .. you are not missing anything!

6-6 ... 6-5 set pt sania serves ..

Jay

[BSharma]

First set 7-6 to Sania.

Way to fight back by Sania.

[banu]

she got the first set 7-6 it reads

god! hewitt is fighting back. i'll luv to see. but not on this day.

[nata]

Great! Sania finally up 2-0!!

Sad that I can't type in any messages in the chat!

[jayakris]

Sania Mirza (IND,32) vs Viktoria Azarenka (BLR,156), 76(6) 00

Second set ..

0-0 .. VA serves .. down 0-40 .. SM breaks!
1-0 .. SM serving .. serves 5 deuces and saves two BPs to finally take it ..
2-0 .. VA serving .. holds at 40-30
2-1 .. SM holds
3-1 .. VA holds
3-2 .. SM holds easily ..
4-2 .. VA brokn at 0-40 !!!!
5-2 .. SM serving for the match .. 15-30 down .. comes up with an ACE at 40-30 for match pt .. Got it!!!

76(6) 62 win for Sania!!!

Jay

[BSharma]

7-6, 6-2 win for Sania.

[shakes1974]

hooray, well done, sania

[shibi]

Nice to see Sania win. It seems that both players had lot of UFEs. Is official statistics available?

[completelyconked]

Man,if this girl fixes her damned serve,she'd probably win most of her matches even with her nonsensical gameplan.
Maybe its a good thing that her serve sucks currently.

[shakes1974]

yeah, here they are:

http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/sco ... 145ms.html

[kishorJ]

I think sania had about 30 ufes and victoria about 45, sania had 15 winners. star sports showed just the last game. are going to show the recording at 8.30 pm ist. i think at 30-30 in the last game sania served an ace down the middle. her first serve percentage was more than 55% and the serve has improved. azareka is definitely one we will hear more in future

CONGRATS SANIA. GO ALL THE WAY!