French Open

In the WTA singles rankings released on Monday, Sania managed to be at the 50th spot with 488.00 points. Sania lost her singles first round encounters both in Morroco and Istanbul.

She is opening her campaign at the French Open against 87th ranked Italian Alberta Brianti, who has beaten Sania in their only previous meeting.

Sania, though, has had better luck in the doubles events. She clinched the Morocco Open crown with American Vania King and was the runners-up at Istanbul. Sania has entered the doubles draw with Eva Birnerova of the Czech Republic, her third partner this year. The duo will clash with the No. 1 seeds Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur in the opening round.

Sania has paired up with Fabrice Santoro of France in the mixed doubles of French Open and they will take on German pair of Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Alexander Waske in the opening round.

She has roped in reputed Spanish coach Gabriel Urpi to help her chances at Roland Garros.

Sania-Vania duo Won Morocco Doubles

Sania Mirza won her first WTA Tour title of the season by clinching the doubles crown at the USD 145,000 Morocco Open with American Vania King at Fes today. Sania and Vania thrashed the duo of Romanian Andreea Ehritt-Vanc and Anastasia Rodionova of Russia 6-1 6-2 in the final of the clay court women's tennis tournament.

This was Sania's fourth career title and her first outside India. She had earlier won the Hyderabad Open in 2004, the Bangalore Open and Sunfeast Open in Kolkata in 2006.
Liezel Huber of South Africa was the partner on those three occasions.

Earlier top-seeded Sania lost in the first round of the singles competition to Maria Emilia Salerni of Argentina. This was Sania's first match after she missed two-and-a-half months of action due to a knee injury.