{"id":2042,"date":"2012-01-16T18:09:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:09:20","slug":"sania-crashes-out-in-first-round-of-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2042","title":{"rendered":"Sania crashes out in first round of Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Melbourne<\/strong>:Sania Mirza lost to Bulgaria&#8217;s Tsetana Pironkova 4-6, 2-6 in the first round of Australian Open here on Monday.\u00a0 <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 in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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><strong>Melbourne<\/strong>:Sania Mirza lost to Bulgaria&#8217;s Tsetana Pironkova 4-6, 2-6 in the first round of Australian Open here on Monday.\u00a0 <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 in straight sets.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tennis-tennis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sania crashes out in first round of Australian Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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