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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
 After a injury-marred 2008 which even saw her ranking slipping out of the top hundreds, tennis icon Sania Mirza feels that time has come to be back into action and said she will focus on 'singles', which still remains her priority.
''I am pretty young, I am just 22, to focus on doubles.
Sania told ''Even though doubles gives me confidence when I am not doing good in singles, my priority remains singles,''
However, she was elated on the fact she has been paired with former Davis cupper Mahesh Bhupati to compete in mixed doubles competition in the Australian Open. The duo made the final last year in their maiden event as a pair.
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
 Sania Mirza, who until three months ago was struggling to grip a glass of water in her right hand, is back to striking her dreaded fore hand with military firepower.
The 22-year-old's battered wrist had gone under the knife in April. Later in the summer, Sania made brief comebacks before bowing out of the Beijing Olympic Games in tears.
A period of darkness and doubt ended when she was introduced to Dr Jatin Chaudhry, who specialises in the rare South Korean science of spiral therapy or the regeneration of body cells. Within days, she was on the road to recovery.
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
 Due to lack of sponsors, Indian woman tennis ace Sania Mirza's proposed Pakistan tour has reportedly been postponed.
The tour was jointly planned by the PTF (Pakistan Tennis Federation) and the (ITF) Indian Tennis Federation to promote tennis and improve bilateral relations between the two federations, reported the Daily Times.
It added that the PTF had announced that it would host top Indian women tennis star in November or December this year, but lack of sponsorship forced the PTF to postpone the scheduled tour of Sania.
During Pakistan tour, Sania was also scheduled to play a doubles match against Pakistan's top tennis player Aisamul Haq Qureshi. |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
 Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza falls to her lowest ranking in 2 years, falls to 99 in the WTA rankings. Sania is close to being knocked out of the top 100 with her ranking falling to 99 in the latest WTA rankings. This season's fall to 99 comes as a shock and testimony of the Hyderabadi's inconsistency over the period of time.
Sania's absence from the game because of injury has not helped matters as she has missed both the French Open and the US Open. Sania had withdrawn from the first round of the Olympics after suffering a wrist injury.
Sania Mirza's performance has been quite erratic over the past one and half years. She reached a career high ranking of 27 in August 2007 but couldn't sustain it for long. She fell out of the top 30 in April 2008 falling to number 31. The slip in rankings got bad subsequently as she fell 23 places just before the Olympics to 54th.
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 Sania Mirza was relaxed and confident, as she faced the media after another good training session at the DLTA Complex. She had finished her stint in the Capital with friend Radhika Tulpule, who has graduated from her playing days to be one of the best ITF-qualified coaches in the country.
Having seen through the tough phase in her career, when she could not bear watching the U.S. Open on the television, or lift a glass of water, as she had been troubled by a wrist injury that had flared up after surgery, during the Olympics in Beijing, the 21-year-old Sania was understandably composed.
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Monday, 20 October 2008 |
 Forced to stay away from courts for almost half the season, a fit again Sania Mirza is eyeing a comeback at January's Classic tennis tournament in Hong Kong and revealed that she almost sunk into depression while struggling to recover from a wrist injury.
The Indian ace is out of action since Beijing Olympics, where her wrist injury flared up again and she had to concede her first round singles match.
Sharing the trauma she faced when she ran out of options to get her wrist healed, she said it was difficult to cope with the situation at that time.
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
Films and sports continue to be the most glam professions in India. Little wonder then that the two have an intimate chemistry that’s only getting hotter by the day.
A chemistry that is on its way to blossoming into a full-fledged relationship, Sania Mirza and Shahid’s closeness is one of its kinds. While the two have constantly maintained that they are single, the Kapur lad last admitted in an interview that if he liked someone and enjoyed her company, it is but obvious that they will be seen spending time together in public.
Now with a hint as strong as that, it is only a matter of time before the actor will make his relationship public. After all, actors too can believe in the adage ‘Once bitten, twice shy’. |
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
 Tennis legend Jimmy Connors today opined that the downfall of Sania Mirza has been because ''she might be thinking of other things than concentrating only on her game''.
The seven-time Grand Slam champion, who was speaking here after inking an MoU with Solaris to start India's first Sports Resort in Pune, said that a player should only think of winning and other things would follow automatically.
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
 There has been a lot of talk over the past couple of years: whether Sania Mirza is all media hype and little substance, that she’s glamour, glitz and good looks but her on-court performances don’t match the build-up.
Much as she has tried to counter this she has had her critics who keep pointing out to her record. And if anything her steep fall in the rankings would give her detractors a lot of ammunition.
In the latest WTA chart she has slid to as low as 91. It is not that she has been playing badly; the fact is that she’s hardly been playing at all and that’s her problem.
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
Sania Mirza’s continued absence from the court took a heavy toll on her singles ranking as she slid to as low as 91 in the latest WTA charts issued on Monday.
Sania, who skipped the U.S. Open, dropped 21 places in one week with 380 points and runs the risk of moving out of top-100 for the first time since 2004.
Sania has been forced to miss the entire clay court season including the French Open and then left her singles Olympics campaign mid-way due to the niggling wrist injury.
She also lost seven positions in her doubles ranking, dropping to 44 with 949 points.
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