A STAR IS BORN
Sania Mirza was born to Imran and Naseema at Mumbai on November 15 th 1986.
She is a scorpio.
A native of Hyderabad, she is fond of Biryani and just loves it despite advices of her coaches to resist the temptation.
She began
playing tennis when she was just six.
Sania loves music. She enjoys swimming that is another
favourite pastime activity for the golden girl.
She is 1.68 m tall and is 54 kg. Steffi Graf is the favourite player of Sania. She dotes on her younger sister, An'am. Notwithstanding her tough routine, Sania is a devout Muslim who prays regularly.
Sania says that her boyfriend should be 'Over six feet tall, good looking, nice and understanding without any ego problems'. SANIA MIRZA was barely five years old when her parents, Imran and Naseema, decided to give her the racquet. They were watching a match between Conchita Martinez and Steffi Graf.
Imran Mirza asked her wife if she would like to see their daughter play like that. She nodded and thus foundation for a tennis career was laid.
The child started playing tennis from the age of six under the supervision of PA Jain and Ravi Chander. Her first international match was at the age of 13 years when she played the ITF Junior Tournament.
Soon she was drawing the attention of tennis enthusiasts.
Playing competitive tennis obviously meant absolute deidcation towards the game that could affect her education but Sania worked hard on studies..
She secured 63% in the Xth examination. Meanwhile, she won the Wimbledon Girls Doubles title--the first ever grandslam win by an Indian girl. Sania had truly arrived.
Under the guidance of Mahesh Bhupathi and his father, he game improved significantly. She won 10 ITF singles and 11 ITF doubles championships.
Already, the youngest girl to win bronze at the Asian Games, she kept on working hard on her game. After playing with Serena in the Australian Open, the high point of the career was winning the WTA Open at Hyderabad.
Despite injury, she performed consistently and at Dubai Open became the first Indian woman player to beat a top ten player. The successes boosted her world ranking to 77.
When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called her up on phone, praised her game and said that he felt delighted seeing her play confidently with Serena Williams, the Hyderabadi girl was overjoyed. It's still a beginning and many more skies are there is a fine line between being aggressive and being arrogant.I am aggressive and not arrogant".This in response to a question on her attitude in an interview recently.
. Birth Date: 15 Nov 1986
Birth Place: Mumbai, India
Residence: Hydrabad, India
Nationality: INDIA
Height: 5'7 1/2" (1.53m)
Weight: 130 lbs. (59kg)
Plays: Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Favourite Surface: Hard
Coach: C.G.K. Bhupathi
Age Began Tennis: 6
Personal Interests: Swimming, Music
Other Information: Ambition in tennis: To be in the Top 20 of the World.
Favourite player: Steffi Graf
Sania Mirza is a professional female tennis player from India. Coached by her father, Imran Mirza, Sania began playing tennis at age six. 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 "My mother took me to a coach, who initially refused to coach me because I was too small," said Mirza. "After a month, he called my parents to say he'd never seen a player that good at such a young age."
She is 5 ft. 7 in. tall.
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 Petrova. She is a devout Muslim, who began playing tennis at the age of six.
Watching her performance in Acura Classics, legendary Pancho Segura, Ecuador-born American player who roamed the courts in the 1940s and 50s, felt that Sania's hard-hitting game resembles that of Romanian tennis legend Nastase. Segura said that Sania has a n
Sania's Favourites
Hobbies: Swimming and Music.
Her Idol: Steffi Graf.
Favourite Surfac: Hard.
Tournament: Wimbledon.
Color: Red and Black
Foods: Biryani.
Movie: Ocean's 11
Actors: Brad Pitt and Hugh Grant
Music:Eminem,Rap and Hindi Remixes.
Tennis Shot: Overhead.
atural way of hitting the ball and she hits it hard. These qualities remind him of Ilie Nastase.