Sania Mirza famous Indian lady tennis player was born in November 15, 1986 she started playing tennis at the age of 6. Sania father imran mirza and mother Naseema helped a lot for her success in tennis. Sania mirza has one sister Anam. Sania Mirza is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 18 in doubles. Sania mirza holds the distinction of being the first Indian woman to be seeded in a Grand Slam tennis tournament. She was trained by her father, as well as her other family members and was sponsored by the industrialist GV Krishna Reddy. Sania Mirza, the youth icon of India is creating history in Tennis worldwide.
Sania Mirza is the first Indian woman to win a WTA (Hyderabad Open trophy) in February 2005. She has earned a large fan following in India as she is one of the very few young women from the country to have done well at the highest levels of sport. In 2005, she was awarded the Arjuna award in tennis for the year 2004. She has defeated two top 10 players, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova. She is a devout Muslim, who began playing tennis at the age of six.
Sania mirza Personal Quote:
Sania Mirza said “My mother took me to a coach, who initially refused to coach me because I was too small,” next “After a month, he called my parents to say he’d never seen a player that good at such a young age.”