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Double bagel for Mirza at US Open


India's Sania Mirza Sania Mirza (born November 15, 1986) is an Indian tennis player. She was born in Mumbai, brought up in Hyderabad. Coached by her father, Imran Mirza, she began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003.  saw her US Open campaign come to a dismal end on Tuesday when she was whitewashed 6-0, 6-0 by 10th seed Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta (born February 25 1982 in Brindisi, Puglia) is an Italian professional tennis player, most recently of Milan.

She has won three career Women's Tennis Association singles titles, all on clay courts, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005.
 of Italy in a second round tie.

The match lasted just 50 minutes and was one of the worst defeats of her career at a tournament where she achieved her big breakthrough with a run into the fifth round in 2005.

Pennetta was dominant in every category, committing just 10 unforced errors to Mirza's 28 and hitting 20 winners to her opponent's six.

The Indian was particularly errant on her normally reliable forehand forehand

the head, neck, shoulders, withers and forelimbs of the horse.
 side, spraying the ball long and wide.

"When you lose love and love there is not much you can say, but I felt I didn't play that badly," said Mirza.

"She played exceptionally well. Everything was working for her. There are days like that and you just have to move forward.

"I told her in the locker room afterwards that if she continues to play like that she will be number one in the world."

The 22-year-old from Hyderabad said that she still had the doubles and the mixed doubles mixed doubles
pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)
A game of doubles, as in tennis, that is played with each team composed of one man and one woman.
 to contest in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 and was confident she and Canadian partner Daniel Nestor could do well in the latter.

"After that I will play in Asia and just try to stay healthy for the rest of the year for once," she added.

Mirza won the Australian Open mixed doubles title at the start of the year, teaming with compatriot com·pa·tri·ot  
n.
1. A person from one's own country.

2. A colleague.



[French compatriote, from Late Latin compatri
 Mahesh Bhupathi to become the first Indian pair to win any Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

The Italian, the first player from her country to break into the world top 10, underlined her outsider status and will go on to play Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada for a place in the fourth round.
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