Sania Mirza enters into second round
February 5, Sania Mirza won over Catalina Castano of Columbia in the first round of the $170000 WTA Tour tennis event in Pattaya, Thailand. She took break last week after the Australian Open Grand Slam.
Mirza was not best in the first set. She got off to a bad start, dropping her serve with a double-fault to fall behind 2-0. Although she recovered to lead 5-3, she failed to find any consistency and then netted a backhand when building a set point at 5-4. Sania Mirza’s more powerful game gave Castano little chance in the second set.
Sania Mirza said that she started a little slow, and she was trying to get a feel of how Castano played. She also said that she never played with Castano. She said that she had finished the first set at 5-4, but from the tiebreak onwards she played like she wanted to play and she stopped giving any easy points.
At the same time, Sania Mirza slipped one place to 49 in the singles charts of the latest WTA Tour tennis rankings.
In the second round Sania Mirza will meet either world no.83 Yung jan Chan of chinest Taipei or local challenger 85th ranked Tamarine Tanasugarn. Maria Sharapova held her position at the top of the table followed by Justine Henin Hardenne and Amelie Mauresmo.
