Sania Mirza & Elena Vesnina in QF

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Russian collaborator Elena Vesnina entered into the quarter finals of the event at the Madrid Open. The unseeded Indo-Russian mixture recorded a 6-3 7-5 win over the Russian-Australian pair of Nadia Petrova and Anastasia Rodionova in the second round of the euro 3,500,000 soil court event. The match lasts for around one hour and 27 minutes. They rehabilitated all the three break chances that came their way in the first set and two of four in the second to record the win in.  Now they have a tough job at hand as they face second seeds Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic and Katarina Serbotnik of Slovania in the last-eight round.

Tennis Queen turns into Queen Sohrab

India’s tennis queen, Sania Mirza broke many hearts as she got engaged to childhood friend Sohrab Mirza in a private ceremony here at hotel Taj. It was attended by a few special and close invitees, close to 300, including Indian tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi, south movie star Chiranjeevi and some political personalities. Sohrab will pursue MBA in Britain and his father owns a chain of bakeries in the city.

The engagement of the Indian tennis' poster girl also put to rest all the speculation about her romantic links with sport stars and bollywood actors.The 22-year-old Hyderbadi has been linked with Pakistani tennis player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and bollywood actor Shahid Kapur and also Telugu superstar Navdeep in the recent past.

Sania's father Imran Mirza had earlier made it clear that Sania would continue playing the game after her engagement and the wedding would take place a couple of years later. Sania, India's first female player to win a Grand Slam title, is likely to leave for America later this month to participate in the US open and other competitions.