Sania-Huss loses in first round of mixed doubles

Melbourne: Sania Mirza's campaign in the Australian Open came to a crashing end after the Indian ace, already out of contention in the singles and doubles, made an early exit from the mixed doubles championship losing in straight sets today.

Sania and her partner Australian Stephen Huss were beaten 6-3 6-3 by the third seed US-Russian pair of Bob Bryan and Vera Zvonareva.

The third seeded pair took little over one hour for their facile 6-3 6-3 win.

Playing for the first time together, the lack of coordination between the Indo-Australian pair was quite evident as they were broken twice in the first set. It took the experienced third seed pair 32 minutes to win the set.

The second set followed the same pattern as Bryan-Zvonareva broke their rivals once on their way to clinch the set and the match.

The US-Russian pair hit 12 winners in all, compared to just one by the Sania-Huss pair and didn't give any chance to the unseeded pair to comeback into the match.

The loss ends the disasterous campaign of Sania Mirza in the first grand slam of the year having been already ousted from the singles competition where she lost to Michala Krajicek in the second round.

Later the Hyderabadi teen went down in the first round of the doubles competition as well.