US Open: Sania out of mixed doubles, Yuki in second round

September 9th, 2009 NEW YORK - India's Leander Paes moved into the mixed doubles final and remained on course for a clash with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in the men's doubles final as both advanced to the semifinals of the event at the US Open tennis championship here. Defending champions Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe, seeded second, came through the grind to beat Chinese Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe 6-2, 3-6, 10-5 in a mixed doubles semifinal at the Flushing Meadows here Tuesday.

September 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - Sania Mirza's campaign in the US Open ended on Sunday, as she and her partner Daniel Nestor were knocked out in the second round of the mixed doubles event. Mirza and Nestor duo was outplayed by Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott of the USA, in straight sets 6-1, 6-4.

September 6th, 2009 NEW YORK - It turned out to be the perfect day for India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi at the US Open tennis tournament as they cruised into the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles and pre-quarterfinals of men's doubles with their partners at Flushing Meadows here. Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas, seeded third, took an hour and 15 minutes to prevail over Americans Jesse Levine and Ryan Sweeting 7-5, 6-2 in the men's doubles second round Saturday.

September 5th, 2009 NEW YORK - India's Sania Mirza bowed out of women's doubles while Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the mixed doubles second round on the fifth day of the US Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows here. Sania, partnering Italian Francesca Schiavone and seeded 14th, lost 2-6, 6-1, 5-7 to Argentina's Gisela Dulko and Israeli Shahar Peer in the second round match that stretched slightly over two hours.

September 4th, 2009 NEW YORK - India's Somdev Devvarman lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the men's second round of the US Open on Thursday. The Indian top ranked singles player lost to his German opponent in four sets 6-3, 6-4, 0-6, 6-2.

September 4th, 2009 NEW YORK - Indian Somdev Devvarman's Grand Slam singles debut ended with a second round loss to German Philipp Kohlschreiber in the US Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows here. The 23rd-seeded Kohlschreiber was given a tough fight by qualifier Somdev, ranked 162, before advancing 6-3, 6-4, 0-6, 6-2 in two hours and 48 minutes here Thursday.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi will be playing with different partners in the mixed doubles event of the ongoing US Open tennis championships in New York. The Australian Open mixed doubles champions reached the decision due to uncertainity over Sania's participation in the event because of her troubled wrist, which was operated upon last year.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW YORK - India's Sania Mirza crashed out of the US Open second round after being handed one of her worst career defeat by Italian Flavia Pennetta 6-0, 6-0 at Flushing Meadows here Wednesday. The 10th seed Italian took just 50 minutes to complete the whitewash.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Yuki Bhambri continues to take giant strides on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings, leap-frogging 111 places to 531st position. The 17-year-old junior Australian Open champion won his third successive International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association (DLTA) complex earlier this month before his 17-match unbeaten streak was halted in the second of the two back-to-back tournaments last week.

July 8th, 2009 WTT mixed doubles team to get US Open wild cardNEW YORK — Mixed doubles players in the World Team Tennis league will have more on the line this summer. The WTT announced Wednesday that the top mixed doubles team will receive a wild card to the U.S.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - French Open champions Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic crashed out of the Wimbledon tennis championships in a sensational first-round loss to American James Blake and Mardy Fish 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in the men's doubles here Thursday. However, India's Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei sailed into the women's doubles second round with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over American Jill Craybas and Carly Gullickson.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - India's Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei defeated American Jill Craybas and Carly Gullickson 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the women's doubles at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships here Thursday. The Indo-Chinese pair, seeded 15th, will next face Russian Alla Kudryavtseva and Romania's Monica Niculescu, who beat Spaniard Lourdes Dominguez Lino and Arantxa Parra Santonja 7-5, 4-6, 6-1.

June 15th, 2009 EASTBOURNE - India's Sania Mirza has retired from the first round of the singles qualifying event of the $600,000 Aegon International tennis due to a right hip strain. Sania, playing less than a day after her semifinal loss to Magdalena Rybarikova at the Aegon Classic, pulled out when trailing 4-6, 2-3 against Belarussian Tatiana Poutchek, who was called up as an alternate to play in place of Alexandra Dulgheru who withdrew due to a sprained ankle.

May 31st, 2009 PARIS - India's Leander Paes and Zimbabwean Cara Black crashed out of the French Open tennis' mixed doubles second round, losing 0-6, 6-1, 6-10 to Austrian Sybille Bammer and Lukasz Kubot of Poland. The second-seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair and the US Open champions made a strong comeback to make it set-all but could hit only 5 winners in the super-tiebreak to go down in little over an hour here Saturday.

May 29th, 2009 PARIS - India's Leander Paes and Zimbabwean Cara Black eased into the French Open mixed doubles tennis second round with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Virginie Razzano of France and South African Jeff Coetzee here Friday. The second-seeded US open mixed doubles champions broke Razzano and Coetzee five times in the match while dropping their serve twice to win in almost an hour.