Mirza performed her final Grand Slam match the place she and Bopanna misplaced the Australian Open combined doubles closing to Brazilian pair Stefani and Matos.
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza’s final Grand Slam match has ended with a loss within the Australian Open combined doubles closing.
The 36-year-old Mirza, India’s best ladies’s participant, returned to Melbourne Park for one final hurrah and made all of it the best way to the decider on Friday.
Nevertheless, she and her 42-year-old doubles accomplice Rohan Bopanna have been unable to recover from the road, dropping 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 to Brazilian pair Luisa Stefani and Rafael Matos.
— Sania Mirza (@MirzaSania) January 27, 2023
Mirza was in tears throughout the post-match presentation ceremony.
“Disclaimer, if I cry it's completely satisfied tears,” Mirza mentioned. “I don’t need to take away the second from Matos-Stefani who've deserved this.”
Mirza first appeared at a Grand Slam event 18 years in the past in Melbourne, when she was crushed by eventual 2005 champion Serena Williams in a third-round match.
“I’ve had the privilege to come back again right here time and again, and win some tournaments and play some nice finals.
“Rohan was my first-ever mixed-doubles accomplice at [age] 14 and we gained the nationals,” mentioned Mirza, a six-time Grand Slam champion, three in ladies’s doubles and three in combined.
“It was a very long time in the past, 22 years in the past, and I couldn’t consider a greater individual – he’s considered one of my finest associates and finest companions – to complete my profession right here and to play the ultimate.”
🔹6 profession Grand Slam titles
🔹2014 US Open combined doubles champion
🔹2015 US Open ladies's doubles championCongratulations on a exceptional Grand Slam profession, @MirzaSania! pic.twitter.com/rusGlEHshR
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) January 27, 2023
Mirza, who's married to former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik and has a younger son Izhaan with him, mentioned it was unbelievable to play in entrance of him in a serious closing.
Mirza was the primary Indian to win a WTA singles title in 2005 in her hometown Hyderabad. She reached the fourth spherical of the US Open the identical yr and by 2007 was among the many ladies’s high 30.
A wrist harm nonetheless compelled her to focus on doubles, forging a partnership with Swiss nice Martina Hingis which produced three Grand Slam titles.
She is because of retire from all tennis after a event subsequent month in Dubai, the place she has lived for greater than 10 years and not too long ago launched a tennis academy.
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