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Journalism of Courage
Sania Mirza survived a scare to beat Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland and advance to the third round of the women8217;s singles event in the Australian Open here today.
In a battle lasting for one hour and 44 minutes, Sania got the better of Timea 6-1, 4-6, 7-5.
In the keenly-contested decider, Sania approached the net more often and reduced her unforced errors to emerge victorious. The 31-seeded Indian said she was delighted to make it to the third round after the off-the-court controversies that chased her before the tournament.
8220;She was in the match till the end, and I think I was just stronger a bit mentally. I hung in there very well,8221; Sania said.
About her upcoming clash with Venus, Sania said she would give it her best as she had nothing to lose. 8220;I8217;m just going to go for it. I have nothing to lose. I8217;m very excited, actually, to play Venus. I think the last time I played her was in Stanford a couple years ago, and I haven8217;t played her since. And obviously I feel like I8217;m playing well, and I8217;m playing better tennis than I was a couple of years ago. And so is she.8221;
She added: 8220;I8217;m very pleased by winning like this today because a lot has been happening in the last couple of weeks off the court. I was down 3-1, 30-all in third. I could have just said, 8216;I8217;m just mentally not there8217;. It would have been a good excuse even for myself. But I didn8217;t want to do that. I wanted to come through. And I proved to myself that I8217;m mentally strong enough to do that.8221;
