{"id":2035,"date":"2012-01-16T13:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2012-01-16T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:48:24","slug":"sania-loses-in-australian-open-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Sania loses in Australian Open first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Melbourne<\/strong>: Sania Mirza\u2019s Austalian Open challenge was over in the first round itself as she lost to Bulgaria\u2019s Tsvetana Pironkova in straight sets on Monday here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Sania+Mirza&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Sania+Mirza&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\">Sania Mirza<\/a> who made a comeback from a knee injury and was playing her second singles match in five months looked to put up some fight but that was not enough as she went down to her Bulgarian counterpart Pironkova 4-6, 2-6.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With<a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Somdev+Devvarman&amp;ordering=newest&amp;searchphrase=all&amp;limit=20\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Somdev+Devvarman&amp;ordering=newest&amp;searchphrase=all&amp;limit=20\"> Somdev Devvarman<\/a> pulling out of the tournament due to an injury, Sania was India\u2019s only hope at the single event, showed some resiliency but made 20 unforced errors as compared to 14 by Pironkova making her lose the first set.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After going down in the first set, Sania started off positively in the second set, but she eventually went down 4-2 in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After going down 4-2 she made a desperate attempt to comeback but could not shake the 47th ranked Bulgarian Pironkova who won the game to make it 5-2. It was impossible for her to make a comeback from there and some powerful serves in the eight game of the match saw Sania bowing out of the Championship.<\/p>\n<div><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne: Sania Mirza\u2019s Austalian Open challenge was over in the first round itself as she lost to Bulgaria\u2019s Tsvetana Pironkova in straight sets on Monday here. \u00a0 Sania Mirza who made a comeback from a knee injury and was playing her second singles match in five months looked to put up some fight but that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sania loses in Australian Open first round - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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