Sania Mirza managed to win her first set of the season but a couple of crucial line call overrules nipped her fight in the bud as she went down to Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova in the first round of Medibank International Open here today. Sania, playing in her first WTA Tour match of the season, went down 6-4 2-6 6-2 to Hantuchova, world number 17, in a Centre Court match at the USD 600,000 event.The 19-year old Hyderabadi, world ranked 34, should have been 5-2 up but an overrule by the chair umpire at a critical moment cost her the lead.
A similar overrule in the decider saw the Indian go down 2-5 down instead of staying on serve for 3-4.
Sania said it would be at least a couple of months before she found her touch as she had made a few changes to her game while training under Tony Roche.
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