Sania Mirza lost her last Grand Slam women’s doubles match. She was defeated 4-6,6-4, 2-6 in Sunday’s second round at the Australian Open.
Mirza and her Kazakh partner Anna Danilina were seeded eighth. In a match lasting just over two hours, Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina and Belgium’s Alison Van Uytvanck lost to Mirza.
N Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, the Indian men’s singles team, failed to make it into the finals. The French duo Fabrice Martin and Jeremy Chardy also stopped them from continuing in the competition.
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Balaji and Nedunchezhiyan were entered as an alternate team in the tournament. They lost 4-6, 4-4 to end India’s challenge at the men’s doubles competition.
Mirza and Danilina were trailing 0-3 in second set, but they fought back and won three consecutive games.
The seventh game saw a decisive break when Kalinina Van Uytvanck and Kalinina hit a forehand wide. This sent the match into the final.
The winning momentum was not maintained by the Indo-Kazakh in the third set, as they were broken three times.
Mirza, however, is still alive in mixed doubles with Rohan Bopanna. They defeated Luke Saville and Jaimee Fourlis 7-5, 6-3 in Saturday’s opening round.
Six-time Grand Slam champion, Mirza was a three-time winner in women’s doubles and three in mixed doubles. She announced that the Australian Open would her last Grand Slam. She would also be retiring from the WTA 1000 Dubai Tennis Championships scheduled for February 19.