Trailblazing Indian tennis star Sania Mirza’s swansong look on the Australian Open led to a quarter-final loss to native pair Jamie Forlis and Jason Kubler within the blended doubles occasion on Tuesday.
Mirza, a wildcard entry with American Rajeev Ram, misplaced to Forlis and Kubler 4-6, 6-7 in a single hour and half-hour.
Mirza, 35, is India’s most completed feminine tennis participant, having received six Grand Slam titles together with three blended doubles trophies.
The blended doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Rajeev Ram crashed out of the Australian Open after dropping 4-6, 6-7 within the quarterfinals to Jamie Forlis and Jason Kubler.#os open , #Australian Open pic.twitter.com/HNDnFYSyMj
— All India Radio Sports (@akashvanisports) 25 January 2022
She was aiming so as to add a second Australian Open blended doubles title to her kitty after a primary spherical exit within the girls’s doubles occasion final week.
Melbourne has been a contented searching floor for the park Mirza, who lately introduced that she’s going to retire on the finish of this season. Two of his six Grand Slam titles have come on the Australian Open.
Apart from profitable the blended doubles title with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in 2009, Mirza additionally received the ladies’s doubles trophy in 2016 with Swiss nice Martina Hingis, which was additionally her final Grand Slam win.
With the defeat of Mirza, the Indian problem on the first Slam of the 12 months additionally got here to an finish.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
