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Sania loses final, gets silver
Amanpreet Singh
New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) A gritty Sania Mirza saved four
match points in a heart-stopping women's singles final before
settling for a silver medal as she lost the action-packed
match 3-6 6-2 6-7 (3) to top seed Anastasia Rodionova in the
tennis event of the Commonwealth Games in the Indian
capital Saturday.
Rodionova thus became the first player to win a gold
medal in the debut year of the sport in the Games.
The 137th ranked Sania almost pulled it off but ended on
the wrong side of the result when she double faulted in the
decisive tie-break.
She made a spirited comeback after surrendering the
opening set, as she drew level and then stretched the match to
a decisive third set, where she saved three match points in
the 12th game to force a tie-breaker.
The second seed Indian served poorly almost all through
but hit two of her four aces in that 12th game to keep her
alive.
Down 1-3 in the tie break with a mini break of serve, and
then at 3-6 with three match points to save, this time Sania
could not catch up as she double faulted for one last time to
hand the gold medal to Rodionova, world number 62.
Sania had broken Rodionova in the first game of the third
set to go up 2-0 but could not build on the mini lead and
allowed Rodionova to comeback by dropping her serve thrice.
"I think what's important was that I gave my best but I
fell a bit short. It is an honour to play for my country,"
Sania said after the match.
"I have been trying really hard but now I feel am a real
Australian after winning the Commonwealth Games gold medal,"
Rodionova, the Russian who converted to Australian, said.
At the start, there was hardly any change in script for
Sania as she continued to struggle with her serve. Like
Friday, she could not held her serve in the entire first
set as double faults plagued her game right from the onset.
Rodionova was equally erratic as she hardly had control
over her shots.
After trading breaks in the first five games, the
Australian finally held one to go ahead 4-2.
Two more double faults combined with a forehand error by
Sania put Rodionova within a game from taking the first set.
The top seed though dropped her serve when she fired a
backhand to net but sealed the first set with a backhand past
winner in the next game. PTI AT
SAK
New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) A gritty Sania Mirza saved four
match points in a heart-stopping women's singles final before
settling for a silver medal as she lost the action-packed
match 3-6 6-2 6-7 (3) to top seed Anastasia Rodionova in the
tennis event of the Commonwealth Games in the Indian
capital Saturday.
Rodionova thus became the first player to win a gold
medal in the debut year of the sport in the Games.
The 137th ranked Sania almost pulled it off but ended on
the wrong side of the result when she double faulted in the
decisive tie-break.
She made a spirited comeback after surrendering the
opening set, as she drew level and then stretched the match to
a decisive third set, where she saved three match points in
the 12th game to force a tie-breaker.
The second seed Indian served poorly almost all through
but hit two of her four aces in that 12th game to keep her
alive.
Down 1-3 in the tie break with a mini break of serve, and
then at 3-6 with three match points to save, this time Sania
could not catch up as she double faulted for one last time to
hand the gold medal to Rodionova, world number 62.
Sania had broken Rodionova in the first game of the third
set to go up 2-0 but could not build on the mini lead and
allowed Rodionova to comeback by dropping her serve thrice.
"I think what's important was that I gave my best but I
fell a bit short. It is an honour to play for my country,"
Sania said after the match.
"I have been trying really hard but now I feel am a real
Australian after winning the Commonwealth Games gold medal,"
Rodionova, the Russian who converted to Australian, said.
At the start, there was hardly any change in script for
Sania as she continued to struggle with her serve. Like
Friday, she could not held her serve in the entire first
set as double faults plagued her game right from the onset.
Rodionova was equally erratic as she hardly had control
over her shots.
After trading breaks in the first five games, the
Australian finally held one to go ahead 4-2.
Two more double faults combined with a forehand error by
Sania put Rodionova within a game from taking the first set.
The top seed though dropped her serve when she fired a
backhand to net but sealed the first set with a backhand past
winner in the next game. PTI AT
SAK
