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Sania Mirza suffered another first round exit as she bowed out of the USD 600,000 Bausch and Lomb Championships in Florida, on Tuesday.The 19-year old went down 6-3, 6-4 to 32-year-old American Lisa Raymond at the hard court event.Raymond will face Switzerland’s second seed Patty Schnyder in the second round.Sania is also taking part in the doubles event. She and partner Liezel Huber of South Africa will face the Spanish pairing of Lourdes Dominguez Lino and Anabel Medina Garrigues in the first round on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Sania Mirza jumped two places up to 39th in the latest WTA Rankings announced on Monday.The Indian had made the first round exit at the tier I tournament at Key Biscayne in Miami last week.Sania will next play in Bausch and Lomb Tournament in Amelia Island, USA.

Miami: Sania Mirza and her Serbian partner Ana Ivanovic put up a fight in the first set but were blanked out in the second as they went down 5-7, 0-6 to eighth seeded Japanese-Slovakian pair of Shinobu Asagoe and Katarina Srebotnik in the quaterfinals of the Nasdaq-100 Open here.Sania and Ivanovic tried to face up to their seeded opponents in the first set and they even managed to break them twice but Asagoe and Srebotnik held their own against an onslaught of aces — six in all — by the Indo-Serbian pair to take the set 5-7 after a 41-minute long battle.But the WTA newcomer of the year and her Serbian partner ran out of steam in the second set and failed to win a single point. Asagoe and Srebotnik broke their wild card opponents thrice before storming through the set in 23 minutes.They will now take on the seventh seeded pair of South African Liezel Huber and American Martina Navratilova in the semifinal.The match was the Indian’s last at the tournament after she was knocked out in the first round of the singles competition.Sania, who has dropped to number 41 after finishing the last year at a career high 31st in the WTA rankings, has had an ordinary season so far with no singles title. She has failed to go beyond the third round of a singles competition in any tournment played so far.

Sania Mirza advanced to the second round in the women’s doubles with a straight sets victory at the 3.45-million dollar Nasdaq 100 Open WTA Tour event in Miami, USA.
The 19-year old Indian, pairing with Ana Ivanovic of Serbia, defeated the Italian pair of Maria Elena Camerin and Tathiana Garbin 6-3, 6-4 in the first round on Sunday.
Sania and Ana next play Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic and Italy’s Francesca Schiavone.

Sania Mirza will lead India's campaign in the Fed Cup women's team tennis competition to be played in Seoul, Korea, next month.
Shikha Uberoi, Ankita Bhambri and Isha Lakhani are the other members of the team that will be captained by Enrico Piperno, All India Tennis Association said in a release today.
Hosts Korea, Australia, Chinese Taipei, New Zealand, Philippines and Uzbekistan are the other teams in the fray in the Asia-Oceania Group 1 zonal qualification tie.
Sania was included in the team but did not play a match as she recovered from an ankle injury last year when the competition was held in Delhi.