{"id":6704,"date":"2012-05-28T13:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2012-05-28T13:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T13:41:33","slug":"french-open-sania-bethanie-ready-for-their-first-round-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6704","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Sania-Bethanie ready for their first round match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-2429\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sania_mirza.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"French Open: Sania-Bethanie ready for their first round match\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sania_mirza.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sania_mirza-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Paris<\/strong>: India&#8217;s <a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Sania+Mirza+&amp;sa=Search\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Sania+Mirza+&amp;sa=Search\">Sania Mirza <\/a>and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands will be hoping to make a strong start at the <a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=French+Open+&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2F\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=French+Open+&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2F\">French Open <\/a>women&#8217;s doubles event after their Brussels Open tennis event triumph. <\/p>\n<p>Sania, who was a finalist here in 2011 with Russia&#8217;s Elena Vesnina, and Mattek-Sands take on the unseeded Argentine pair of Gisela Dulko and Paola Suarez in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Sania and Mattek-Sands are riding high on confidence after their title win at Brussels, where they beat Alicja Rosolska of Poland and China&#8217;s Zheng Jie in the final. <\/p>\n<p>It was a relatively one-sided affair, with Mattek-Sands and Mirza, who were seeded fourth, dominating most of the time. This was the Indian&#8217;s second WTA doubles title in the season and her 14th overall. <\/p>\n<p>Sania is having a good run. She won the Pattaya Open paired up with Australian Anastasia Rodionova while teaming up with Elena Vesnina of Russia, the Indian ace finished runners-up at Dubai and Indian Wells. <strong>(IANS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-2429\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sania_mirza.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"French Open: Sania-Bethanie ready for their first round match\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sania_mirza.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sania_mirza-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Paris<\/strong>: India&#8217;s <a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Sania+Mirza+&amp;sa=Search\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Sania+Mirza+&amp;sa=Search\">Sania Mirza <\/a>and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands will be hoping to make a strong start at the <a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=French+Open+&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2F\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=French+Open+&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2F\">French Open <\/a>women&#8217;s doubles event after their Brussels Open tennis event triumph. <\/p>\n<p>Sania, who was a finalist here in 2011 with Russia&#8217;s Elena Vesnina, and Mattek-Sands take on the unseeded Argentine pair of Gisela Dulko and Paola Suarez in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4638,266],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-french-open","tag-french-open","tag-sania-mirza"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>French Open: Sania-Bethanie ready for their first round match - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6704\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French Open: Sania-Bethanie ready for their first round match - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paris: India&#039;s Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands will be hoping to make a strong start at the French Open women&#039;s doubles event after their Brussels Open tennis event triumph. 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