Wimbledon:Sorana Cirstea ends Sania Mirza's singles campaign

Sania Mirza's singles campaign at the Wimbledon championships ended with a 4-6 4-6 second round loss to Romanian 28th seed Sorana Cirstea here today.
Unforced errors proved costly for the Indian in the one-hour-22-minute contest as she yet again failed to move beyond the second round here.
Sania played mostly from the baseline but struggled to keep her booming strokes within the court.

The inability to win points on serve added to the woes of the unseeded Indian against an opponent ranked as high as 27th in the world.

Sania had the first opportunity to get a break but Cirstea denied her friend the favour.

Sania then committed a double fault in the fifth game to hand the Romanian a break chance.

Sania saved four breakpoints in that game but another double fault undid all the good work

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Wimbledo:Sania Mirza’s lost her clothes

Sorana Cirstea and Sania Mirza are such good friends off the tennis court that when Mirza arrived at Wimbledon with a light suitcase she knew who to turn to for a supply of spare clothes.

Thus it was 19-year-old Cirstea's kit that saw them both safely through to today's second round of the women's singles, where the two girls will face each other across the net.

Fortunately, the wardrobe issue has already been sorted out. Mirza, the 22-year-old from India who beat Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 in the first round, has been shopping. “I don't need to borrow stuff from Sorana again,” she said.

Friendship now has to be put aside as she faces the Romanian 28th seed, who appeared out of nowhere to beat two top 10 players on the way to the quarter-finals at Roland Garros.

Mirza said: “We're both professionals and we know where to draw the line.”

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