Having made a winning start at the US Open, Indian tennis star Sania Mirza said was confident of matching her best performance at the Flushing Meadows, the fourth-round appearance in 2005.
“That’s the goal. If I don’t make it, I think I’ll have a bad match or I’ll be unlucky not to make it,” Sania said after surviving a first-round scare against Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi.
Sania admitted she did not play to her potential on Tuesday, and felt relieved after making the next round.
“I felt a bit up and down the whole match. It wasn’t the best match I’ve played by far, but the most important thing is getting through to the next round.
“You have to know how to turn it up when you really need to. It’s the first match of a Slam. It’s always hard. I knew it would be tough,” she said.
If Sania manges to get past American Laura Granville in the next round, her possible third-round opponent would be Russian sixth seed Anna Chakvetadze.
Sania feels she could have made the top-20 had injury not forced her out of reckoning at the start of the season.