Tennis News
At the Wimbledon 2009,

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,78) bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER,51) 62 26 62

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,78) vs (28) Sorana Cirstea (ROU,27)

Sania started strongly breaking Anna-Lena's serve in first and third games to take 3-0 lead ... She won first set 6-2 with 2 breaks ... In second set Anna-Lena saved a break point in first game and then broke Sania's serve in second game ... Sania again had chance of breaking Anna-Lena's serve in third game but against she couldn't managed to convert it ... Anna-Lena again broke Sania's serve into 8th game to won second set 6-2 ... In third set, Sania made much needed strong start breaking Anna-Lena's serve in first game and then hold her serve easily to take 2-0 lead ... With another break Sania take control of the set and take 4-1 lead ... In 8th game Anna-Lena had break point but Sania saved that and converted second match point to score winning start in Wimbledon 2009 ... Sania had 27 UFEs, 1 less than her opponent ... And this 1 hour 51 minutes match Sania had 36 winners including her service winners and Anna-Lena managed only 23.

Next Sania is facing 19 yrs old Romanian #27 Sorana Cirstea, who last year also reached 2nd round of Wimbledon ... She had exceptional results at French open, where she had couple of top-10 wins ... She defeated players like #21 Alize Cornet, #10 Caroline Wozniacki, #5 Jelena Jankovic before losing to Samantha Stosur in quarters.

But until now nothing great on grass for her so Sania having good chance against Cirstea.