Sania Mirza Biography
Date of birth : November 15, 1986 (1986-11-15) (age 22)
Place of birth : Mumbai, India
Height : 1.43 m (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight : 76 kg (170 lb; 12.0 st)
Sania Mirza is a professional female tennis player from India. Mirza was born to a sports journalist, Imran Mirza and her mother Nasima in Mumbai. She was brought up in Hyderabad in a religious Muslim family.[2][3] Mirza began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She was trained by her father.She turned professional in 2003. She became the first and only Indian woman to reach the 4th round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 US Open. She is now the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India (She had a rank of 42, her highest ever, by end of August 2005). Her original goal was to enter the top 100 by the end of 2005, but she revised it to entering the top 50 after good performances at the beginning of the year. (She may have also been helped by the fact that she has very few points to defend for this year and thus, it has been an upward journey in rankings.) As of July 2005, she ranked 5th among Asian women. Her year-end rank in 2004 was 206.
Career
2003
In April 2003, Mirza made her debut in the India Fed Cup team, winning all three singles matches. Mirza won the 2003 Wimbledon Championships Girls’ Doubles title, teaming up with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia.
2004
In 2004, she finished runner-up at the Asian Tennis Championship.
2005
Mirza is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 18 in doubles. She holds the distinction of being the first Indian woman to be seeded in a Grand Slam tennis tournament. Earlier in 2005, she had become the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 U.S. Open, defeating Mashona Washington, Maria Elena Camerin and Marion Bartoli.
2006
Bondarenko of Ukraine in the Hyderabad Open Finals. As of September 2006, Mirza has notched up three top 10 wins; against Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova and Martina Hingis. At the 2006 Doha Asian Games, Mirza won the silver in the women’s singles category and the gold in the mixed doubles partnering Leander Paes. She was also part of the Indian women’s team that won the silver in the team event.
In 2006, Mirza was awarded a Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest honor for her achievements as a Tennis player.
2007
Mirza had had the best results of her career during the 2007 summer hardcourt season, finishing eighth in the 2007 U.S. Open Series standings. She reached the final of the Bank of the West Classic and won the doubles event with Shahar Pe’er, and reached the quarterfinals of the Tier 1 Acura Classic.
At the 2007 U.S. Open, she reached the third round before losing to Anna Chakvetadze for the third time in recent weeks. She fared much better in the doubles, reaching the quarterfinals in mixed with her partner Mahesh Bhupathi and the quarterfinals in the women’s doubles with Bethanie Mattek, including a win over number two seeds Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur.
2008
Mirza was eliminated in the first round of the 2008 Beijing Olympics when she retired in her match against Iveta Benešová because of a right wrist injury. Throughout 2008, Mirza was plagued by a slew of wrist injuries, requiring her to withdraw from several matches and the Roland Garros and US Open Grand Slams.
2009
Sania picked up her maiden Grand Slam title in the 2009 Australian Open. Partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi, she won the mixed doubles title beating Nathalie Dechy (France) and Andy Ram (Israel) 6-3, 6-1 in the final in Melbourne. She then entered the Pattaya Women’s Open Tournament in Bangkok where she reached the finals after a string of good performances. She lost the finals to Vera Zvonareva 7-5, 6-1. She made the semis in doubles in the same tournament.
She crashed out in the first round of Roland Garros, losing to Kazakhstan’s Galina Voskoboeva. She also lost in the second round of the doubles (with Chuang) and mixed doubles (with Mahesh Bhupathi) She participated in the 2009 AEGON Classic and reached the semifinals, losing to Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 3-6,6-0,6-3, who eventually won the title.
Mirza defeated Anna-Lena Gronefeld in the first round of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships.
World Title
In 2006, some newspapers reported that Mirza declined from playing with an Israeli tennis player Shahar Pe’er for fear of protests from India’s Muslim community.[10] However a year later (i.e. in 2007), she teamed up with Pe’er for the 2007 WTA Tour of Stanford, California, and nothing happened.
Mirza was pictured resting her feet and showing her bare soles during a press conference at the 2008 Hopman Cup, with an Indian flag in front.[11] She faced possible prosecution under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act after a private citizen complained. Mirza protested that, “I love my country, I wouldn’t be playing Hopman Cup otherwise.”
On February 4, 2008, Mirza said that she would stop appearing in tennis tournaments held in India, starting with the 2008 Bangalore Open the following month, citing the series of controversies and upon advice by her manager.
Career Highlights
2003 Junior Wimbledon Championships doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Alisa Kleybanova) to become the youngest Indian and the first Indian woman to win a junior Grand Slam title.
2004 Hyderabad Open doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Liezel Huber) to become the youngest Indian to win a WTA or ATP tour title and the first Indian woman to capture a WTA tour title.
2005 US Open: reaches 4th round by defeating Marion Bartoli of France in straight sets (7-6(4), 6-4); Voted Best Player of the day on the 3rd day for winning her 2nd round match despite bleeding toes.
2005 Forest Hills Women’s Tennis Classic, New York: reaches her second WTA final but fails to win
2005 Acura Classic: upsets Nadia Petrova in 2nd round but loses in the third round to Akiko Morigami of Japan (2-6,6-4,4-6). By beating the 8th-ranked Petrova, she breaks into top 50 in world rankings for the first time ever.
2005 Dubai Tennis Championships: 2nd Round: Upset reigning US Open Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals
2005 Hyderabad Open singles: Won the tournament defeating Alyona Bondarenko of Ukraine 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 in the final and became the first Indian woman to capture a WTA singles title.
2005 Australian Open singles: 3rd round: Became first Indian woman to reach the 3rd round of a Grand Slam tournament.
Sania Mirza Tournament
2008
Reached quter-final round at Hobart International.
Reached 4th round at Indian Wells.
Reached 3rd round at Australian Open.
Retired from 1st round of Olympics singles event due to wrist injury.
Injury forced to withdrew from Roland Garros (French Open), Rome and Strasbourg.
Entered 2nd round of Wimbledon and 4th round of US Open.
Crossed $1 million in career prize money earnings. Become first Indian woman to achieve this.
2009
US Open: Made second round appearance to singles, doubles and mixed doubles event.
Vancuover Open: Runner-up (singles).
ITF Lexington Challenger: Winner (singles).
French Open: First round appearance for singles event.
Wimbledon: Second round appearance for singles event.
Australian Open: Won Mixed Doubles title with partner Mahesh Bhupathi.
Pattaya City: Runner-up (singles).
Ponte Vedra Beach: Won doubles title with partner Chuang Chia-jung (Chinese Taipei)
Australian Open: Second round appearance for singles event.
Sania Mirza: Awards and Achievements
2004: Arjuna Award by Government of India.
2005:Newcomer of The Year from WTA (Women’s Tennis Assocoiation)
2006:Gold medal in mixed doubles (partner Leander Paes),
silver medal in Singles and
silver in Women’s team events (partner Shikha Uberoi) at 15th Asian games, Doha, Qatar.
2006: Padmshree Award by Government of India.
Become youngest achiever of Padmashree winner at the age of 19. A Padmashree award is one of the highest civilian awards in India and the winners are honored on Republic Day.
2008: Became Asia No. 1 Player on 28-01-2008. Ranked 29th at that time.
2009: Australian Open mixed doubles title (partner Mahesh Bhupathi)
Medal record
Women’s Tennis
Gold :2006 Doha - Mixed Doubles
Silver : 2006 Doha - Singles
Silver : 2006 Doha - Team
Personal Life
Sania Mirza is engaged to Sohrab Mirza, a business man from Hyderabad,
Sania Mirza Family Photo
Sania Mirza walks with her mother Naseema Mirza and father Imran Mirza
Sania Mirza childhood pictures
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