Tokyo Olympics: Sania Mirza, Ankita Raina knocked out in 1st round in women s doubles despite strong
Tokyo Olympics: Sania Mirza, Ankita Raina knocked out in 1st round in women s doubles despite strong start
Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina won the first set 6-0 and were leading 5-2 in the second set and still went on to lose the match.
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UPDATED: July 25, 2021 09:50 IST
Sania had partnered with Nadiia Kichenok on her return to tennis from maternity leave last year. (Reuters Photo)
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They then lost the second set tie-breaker without scoring a point
They levelled the match tie-break from 0-8 down before losing it 8-10
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Sania Mirza returns to WTA circuit with win in Doha
Sania Mirza returns to WTA circuit with win in Doha
DOHA, Mar 2: Sania Mirza made a winning return to the WTA circuit as she and her Slovenian partner Andreja Klepac beat Ukrainians Nadiia Kichenok and Lyudmyla Kichenok to reach the doubles quarterfinals of the Qatar Total Open here.
The Indo-Slovenian pair won 6-4 6-7(5) 10-5 against the duo of Kichenok and Kichenok in the opening round of the WTA 500 tournament Monday night.
It was Sania’s first match in 12 months and incidentally it was at the Doha Open where she played last in February 2020 before pandemic halted the tennis competitions across the world.
In limited sports action in 2020, Indian boxers delivered knockout punch
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New Delhi, Dec 30 : Year 2020 was supposed to one in which words associated with the Olympics were expected to dominate the sports headlines. Instead, it was terms like pandemic, postponement, behind closed doors, uncertainty and, more recently, vaccine that swept the world as coronavirus forced people shut themselves up in their homes, quarantine centres and, in the case of many sportspersons, hostel rooms of sports facilities.
It was in March that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 as a pandemic and by the end of the month, the Tokyo Olympics, which was scheduled to start from July 24, was postponed to July 23, 2021. India declared a nationwide lockdown on March 25 which brought the sports cal