Sania Mirza’s struggle to success; fascinating facts about her

Sania Mirza is India’s most well-known tennis player, as well as the reigning World No. 1 in Women’s Doubles. This Tennis player, who was born into a middle-class Muslim family in Hyderabad, has had an incredible ride.

Sania’s tale of success is one of pure persistence and stamina, from shattering stereotypes that India cannot produce a female tennis star to winning grand slams for the country.

The following are seven fascinating things about India’s tennis sensation:

1. Sania Mirza, who was born on November 15, 1986, first kept a tennis racquet when she was six years old. Krishna Bhupathi, the father of tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi, was her first mentor. She later learned the game of tennis from Roger Anderson, her mentor.

2. Sania began her schooling at the age of 12 under her father’s tutelage. Imran Mirza almost jeopardized his journalism career in order to pursue his daughter’s ambitions. She displayed flashes of excellence on the court. 3. In 2003, she won the prestigious Wimbledon Junior Championship.

4. During her early days of hardship, a well-known athletic company financed her training, relieving some of the pressure from her parents. Sania Mirza has made amends by becoming one of the brand ambassadors of that particular brand.

5. Sania started her career as a singles player but later turned to doubles because it suited her game better. In 2009, she secured her first grand slam, the Australian Open, with Mahesh Bhupathi. In 2005, she was named the “Best Newcomer of the Year” by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).

6. Sania is the first Indian woman to win a tennis tournament worth more than $1 million dollars. Since 2003, she has also been the top-ranking Indian women’s player. Sania has already won 27 WTA and four ITF doubles titles, as well as one WTA and fourteen ITF singles titles.

7. Sania Mirza received the Arjuna Award in 2004 and was the second tennis player to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2015, after Leander Paes. In 2005, Time magazine called her one of Asia’s “50 Heroes of Asia”.

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