Sania Mirza closed her superb profession with a primary spherical defeat on the WTA Dubai Duty Free Championships, dropping the competition in straight units together with American associate Madison Keys right here Tuesday.
Sania and Keys misplaced 4-6 0-6 to the formidable Russian pair of Vernokia Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova in precisely one hour.
The 25-year-old Veronika is ranked eleventh in singles and quantity 5 within the doubles whereas Liudmila is world quantity 13 in doubles.
The 36-year-old Sania, who turned Pro in 2003, walks out of aggressive tennis with six Grand Slam titles, together with three girls’s doubles with Swiss legend Martina Hingis.
She received two of her three blended doubles with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi (2009 Australian Open and 2012 French Open). She received the US Open trophy with Bruno Soares.
The breaks have been traded at swift tempo within the opening set which was locked at 4-4. From there, Kudermetova and Samsonova broke the pair of Sania and Keys yet another time for a 5-4 lead, inserting themselves ready from the place they may serve out the set.
They did that fairly comfortably, dropping one level within the tenth recreation.
Sania and her associate have been damaged within the very first recreation of the second set and it was a method site visitors after that as they have been bageled.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com