Sania Mirza on a roll…

I’m just charting Sania’s performance these days, and the graph seems to going just one way… up, except that small blip in the form of Sania’s defeat at the hands of Chakvetadze (these Russians, I tell you, they can use their names for the World Tongue Twisters Bank) in the Stanford Cup final.

The ascent started with the Stanford cup, with Sania successfully showing Akiko Morigami the door with a 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5) win. She went on to upset the 19th seeded Tatiana Golovin of France with a comprehensive 6-4, 6-1 victory and zooming into the finals to face that tongue twister I mentioned earlier. She lost alright(6-3, 6-2), but she’d regained her confidence and had become a force to reckon with. And oh, she’d also won the doubles cup partnering Israel’s Sahar Peer successfully demolishing Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Anna Chakvetadze(ask Sania, how sweet revenge tastes!).

All this hullaboo made sure that Sania jumped to 31 in her WTA singles rankings and to 26 in her doubles rankings…

Now you’re sitting up in your chair, huh? And that also silences all her critics with her new found cofidence, and I can sense a load of improvement in her strokes… she just needs to cover her ground better.

And now she’s serving her aces at the Acura Classic defeating Sahar Peer(her doubles partner) and Eleni Daniilidou from Egypt. Now she’s bumped into Maria Sharapova for the quarter finals.. and the chances that she’ll advance are less… but the entire nation’s there with her.. Go girl go!!