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Indian tennis icon Sani Mirza on Tuesday ended her glorious 20-year-long career with a defeat in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships..
She lost in straight sets along with American partner Madison Keys in women's doubles tie..
The pair went 4-6 0-6 down to the formidable Russian pair of Vernokia Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova in exactly one hour...
The breaks from either pair were nullified in the opening set, leaving the score level at 4-4 before Kudermetova and Samsonova broke from the second time to take a 5-4 lead and subsequently served out the set comfortably where they lost just one point in the 10th game...
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