Indian tennis player Sania Mirza’s campaign at the Australian Open 2022 ended with a quarterfinal loss in mixed doubles. The pair of Sania Mirza and Rajeev Ram were defeated by Australian pair of Jason Kubler and Jamie Forlis 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) in this match which lasted for about one and a half hours. Sania Mirza has crashed out of the Australian Open after losing in the women’s doubles in the first round. With this defeat, his claim at the last Australian Open of his career ended. A few days back, Sania Mirza had announced that this would be the last season of her tennis career.
Let us inform that with the defeat of Sania Mirza, the Indian challenge in the first Grand Slam Australian Open of the year also ended. Sania Mirza has been a doubles winner at the Australian Open twice. She won the Australian Open mixed doubles title in 2009 with Mahesh Bhupathi. Then in 2016, she won the women’s doubles title with Switzerland’s Martina Hingis.
Thank you for the memories, @MirzaSania
The two-time #AusOpen doubles champion has played her final match in Melbourne.#AO2022 pic.twitter.com/YdgH9CsnF0
— #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) January 25, 2022
Talking about Sania Mirza’s career, Sania first traveled to the third round of this Australian Open tournament in the year 2005. At that time she used to play in singles. Sania Mirza is the most successful female tennis player in India. Sania has won six Grand Slam titles including three mixed doubles titles for India.