Sania fell in the semi final to a rampaging Martina Hingis with a surprisingly tame score line (6-1 6-0). I have read in many places though that the match was a lot tougher than what the scoreline suggests. However, before I could get to my text editor to blog a scathing account of another failure, Ms Mirza partially redeemed herself by winning the womens doubles with Liezel Huber. That and her victory over higher ranked Rezai did the balm job. I have seen Liezel and Sania play together from court side and I liked what I saw. Huber is a big girl and amazingly adept at the net. That complements Sania's big groundstrokes from the baseline to form a formidable duo. I get the feeling that if they kick their levels up a notch(train harder, get a good coach) we might just see some good results in the future.
That brings me to the ever evolving topic of Sania's Coach. We had Farrington, then Tony Roche did a number on her serve, Narendranath was at the US Open...kinda like musical chairs for tennis pros. A decision regarding the same is said to be out anytime and we hope its a good one. She has devoted her entire lifetime in the pursuit of a tennis career; now she wouldnt want the lack of a good pro to limit the heights she can scale. Brad Gilbert gave Andy Murray's game a facelift and Connors evidently is working wonders for Mr Roddick...the right coach might just do the trick for this 19 year old talent.
One last thing: Roddicks brilliant fight back from 2 sets down in the Davis cup tie up(albeit to lose with scores of 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 17-15)with Tursonov makes me wish our cricketers showed some of that fire in their hearts. It doesnt matter if you go down...but make sure your opponent is more relieved than happy, when its over.
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