Sania Mirza won her fourth match on the trot to cruise to the second round of US Open but it was an early exit for Somdev Devvarman, who lost his opening round in the men's singles event.

The US Open got underway on Monday with straight-sets wins for second seeds and tournament betting favourites Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters.

Sania Mirza sealed a berth in the women's singles main draw of the US Open with a hard earned win over Columbia's Catalina Castano in the qualifying event.

The unseeded Indian overcame a second set

Sania Mirza is one win away from making the women's singles main draw of the US Open after scoring a straight-set win over Russian Elina Bovina in the second round of the qualifying event here.

New York: Forced to go through the qualifiers to compete in the US Open due to her low ranking, Sania Mirza has been drawn against Russian Ksenia Lykina in the first round.

This is the first time eve

Sania Mirza cleared the first hurdle at the US Open qualifiers, scoring an easy straight-set win over Russian Ksenia Lykina here.

New York, Aug. 25: India’s Sania Mirza stormed into the second round of the US Open tennis women’s singles qualifiers with a facile 6-2, 6-2 victory over Russian Ksenia Lykina.

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Forced to go through the qualifiers to compete in the US Open due to low ranking, Sania Mirza has been drawn against Russian Ksenia Lykina as her first round opponent.

New Haven, Connecticutt, Aug. 24: Russian Nadia Petrova rallied after being down one set and 5-2 in the second to beat American Varvara Lepchenko 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the opening round of the Pilot Pen to

World number two Roger Federer won his second ATP Cincinnati Masters crown in a row on Sunday, outlasting American Mardy Fish 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 for his 63rd career title.