Tennis News
At $220K Aegon Classic, Birmingham, Great Britain

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,98) bt (11) Anne Keothavong (GBR,49) 61 76(5)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE) vs Vania King (USA)/ Ipek Senoglu (TUR)

Sania got very dominant start in this second round match ... As she won first set in 26 minutes ... She broke Keothavong's serve thrice in six chances ... Keothavong saved 2 set points in game 7 but Sania converte 3rd set point ... In this set Sania didn't face a single break point.

Bizzare start for second set as Sania committed 2 double faults and faced 4 break points but managed to hold her serve ... In 3rd game Sania saved 3 break point chances but Keothavong converted 4th break point to take lead ... Keothavong again broke Sania's serve in 5th game ... After 1-5 down Sania made comeback in the set breaking Keothavong's serve in 8th game ... Sania saved 2 set points in 9th game and again broke Keothavong's serve in 10th game to make it 5-all ... They both hold their serve to make it 6-all ... In tie-break Keothavong started with mini break, but on next point Sania traded back mini-break to make it 1-all ... At 3-2 Sania take mini-break but Keothavong came back trading another mini-break to make it 5-4 but in next point on Keothavong's serve Sania again take mini-break to gave herself 2 match points ... Keothavong saved 1st on her serve but Sania served for the match and won this second set in 1 hour 2 minutes ... The second set was very long considering match played on grass court.

Good that Sania managed to finish this match in 2 sets as both players were facing problems on their own serve in the second set ... In third round Sania will mostly face Russian 5th seed and WR #31 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.