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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
 The broken engagement may affect Sania Mirza's tennis career, according to her father Imran who hoped that his daughter will overcome the emotional setback.
Imran said that Sania's tennis career had nothing to do with the "mutual" decision of calling off the engagement with her childhood friend Sohrab Mirza.
"It has been mutual. Everything has happened in a very nice manner because both the families are so close to each other," Imran told reporters here.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
 The break up
Sania Mirza hasn't had the best of starts to the 2010 season - on and off court. Earlier in the week, the 23-year-old's father Imran, who coaches Sania and manages her career, called off his daughter's engagement to Mohammed Sohrab Mirza. Sania was formally engaged to the fellow Hyderabadi and longtime friend, now studying business in the United Kingdom, last July.
Incompatible couple
Forget past
Move forward
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Monday, 25 January 2010 |
 Indian ace Sania Mirza and her Spanish partner Virginia Ruano Pascual crashed out of women's doubles in the Australian Open tennis at the Melbourne Park.
The 10th-seeded pair of Sania and Pascual went down 4-6, 3-6 to seventh seeds Alisa Kleybanova of Russia and Italian Francesca Schiavone in the third round.
With this loss, Sania's Australian Open campaign is over.
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
 Sania Mirza is focusing on winning her second successive mixed doubles title at the Australian Open after crashing out of women's singles.
"She (Rezai) is obviously playing well, She was a seed and it is never easy to play a seed first round. But yeah, of course it is disappointing. But that's the way it is. You just have to look ahead, I guess," said Sania about her first round loss in straight sets 4-6, 2-6 to her French opponent and 27th seed Aravani Rezai.
"No, not at all. I've never had a bad experience; personally I've not had anything. In fact, Australia is one of my favourite countries to come and play and Melbourne is one of my favourite cities, so... I think that is something that is very different to what we are doing, we are here to play tennis," the Indian tennis player said.
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
 Sania Mirza suffered her fourth successive defeat, a straight set mauling, at the hands of Italian Francesca Schiavone to crash out of the ASB Classic WTA tournament on Wednesday.
The Indian lost 0-6, 3-6 to her fourth seed opponent in the second round of the $220,000 hard court event, thus making a disappointing start to the season.
The world number 17 proved too tough an opponent for Sania as she failed to get on board in the opening set.
Sania has never won a match against Schiavone, with whom she has paired in the past for the doubles competition on the tour. |
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 |
 Indian ace Sania Mirza opened her 2010 tennis campaign with a come from behind win against Swiss teenager Stefanie Voegele to advance to the second round of the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand.
A rather erratic first set which saw 7 breaks of serve ended 7-5 in favour of Voegele as Sania struggled to land her first serve. The second set however was all Mirza as she dropped just 3 points on her own serve all set, and broke Voegele thrice to romp away with it 6-1. The decider, however, fell into the familiar pattern of the first, but this time it was Sania who prevailed 7-5 to wrap up the match in just under 2 hours. |
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 |
 Sania Mirza attended a fashion charity show presented by Shabana Azmi in Mumbai recently and the tennis star made fashion faux pas on the occasion. Pictures showed that her legs were tanned only up to her ankles showing white feet which were not tanned.
Apparently she was looking like an ugly duckling on the show. Even her dress ill suited her and she looked very out of shape in the attire she wore.
Indeed a fashion fault by the celebrity, the attached pic is proof enough.
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
 Malaysia holds many good memories for India’s tennis ace Sania Mirza.
Not only has she played on Malaysian soil during her junior years, she has also visited the country many times for holidays with her family.
“Malaysia is one of the best places to visit for vacations,” said the 23-year-old, who flew in yesterday morning.
The Indian icon will make an appearance in the two-day Showdown of Champions 2009 – The Glam Slam at the Malawati Stadium in Shah Alam from tomorrow.
In the exhibition tournament, billed as Asia versus Russia, Sania will partner Zheng Jie (world No. 36) of China against Elena Dementieva (world No. 5) and Maria Kirilenko (world No. 62).
“I am looking forward to playing in this tournament. I’ve never partnered Zheng Jie before and I hope to get the crowd to cheer us on,” she said.
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 |
 Sania Mirza had a one constant in 2009; her bottled companion of pain-killers. It was that kind of a season. Still, the 23-year-old Hyderabadi, who started the year at 101 and finished at 58, was happy to be competing.
"After sitting out for almost seven months last year it was a relief to be out there again," she said. "But it wasn’t easy. I played in about 19 tournaments this year, and half of them were with the help of painkillers. There were times when in a period of 24 hours I was taking an unimaginable number of pain-killers and even then it wasn’t like I was playing without pain. Still, it was a good year, hugely challenging and a great learning experience."
What Sania refuses to acknowledge just yet, is the side-effects of the medication, even though she has already swallowed the bitter pill of physical and mental lethargy. She managed to get on court and for most part the pain had been blocked, but she wasn’t the same player. The edge was decidedly missing as was so obvious in later stages of tournaments in the summer and the hardcourt season. |
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 |
 Earlier this year Sania Mirza received a hero's welcome in India after she became the first woman from the world's second most populous nation to win a Grand Slam title - the Australian Open mixed doubles, with Mahesh Bhupathi. But the 23-year-old has never shied away from making statements off court as well, and on Sunday she lent her status in support of an anti-terrorism event held in the capital, New Delhi.
Mirza was among a bevy of eminent figures form the worlds of sports, arts and civil society who took part in the hour-long ceremony, which was organized by India's home ministry under the theme 'A Nation In Solidarity Against Terror'.
The November 29 staging was symbolic, as it marked 12 months since the end of the four-day terrorist siege across Mumbai, in which at least 173 people were killed and more than 300 injured. |
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