Tennis News
At Australian Open 2011, Melbourne, Australia

[Q2] (24) Sania Mirza (IND,145) bt Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS,171) 64 67(7) 63

[Q3] (24) Sania Mirza (IND,145) vs Stephanie Dubois (CAN,164)

Sania had poor match considering her struggle with her service games ... In first set both players broke service 2 times, at one time Sania was 3-4 down with break ... She won next 3 games breaking Diatchenko's serve twice to captured first set ... First game of second sent went on for 15 mins before Sania hold her serve then both players were breaking service games of opponents ... Sania broke Diatchenko in 2nd and 4th games, otherhand Diatchenko broke Sania's serve in 3rd game and 7th game to brought it on serve at 4-3 ... Again Sania immediately broke her serve in 8th game to lead 5-3 but she failed to hold her serve, so again back on serve, 5-4 ... After that both players hold their serves to take serve in tie-break ... In tie-break Sania was 2-6 down, she saved a set point on serve ... Then she won 2 points on Diatchenko's serve and then hold her serve to save all those 3 set points ... Sania had a match point at 7-6 but Diatchenko hold her serve and take important break on 16th point to won second set ... In third set both players hold their serves first 6 games, 3-all ... After that Sania broke Diatchenko's serve in 7th and 9th games to won set and match ... This match was going on for 2 hours 36 mins.

Tough third round qualifying match against Canadian Stephanie Dubois, who defeated Sania twice before this.