Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Sania Mania


Sania Mirza is cool. She was cool when she paired with Leander Paes in the mixed doubles category at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. She was cool when she visited the troubled state of Pakistan when she was barely 14, to play her first ITF juniors' tourney in Islamabad, and then again as part of an Indian contingent for an under-14 ITF juniors event when the Indian Airlines plane was hijacked in Kandahar in 1999.

The burning desire in Mirza is certainly hot at the moment. In fact, she had made it clear in her last interview with rediff.com that her priority is getting into the professional circuit. The wild card she's received at the WTA Indian Open is just a mark of respect to her increasing potential. She feels staying for another year on the junior circuit may alter all her plans and, hence, is pulling all stops to march ahead. Isin't it true that who dares, wins?

Also, she is on the top-list of all the major endorsements and running way ahead of the top list of sportsperson. Read here.

1 comment:

Sourin Rao said...

Anshul
This is good. She deserves all the adulation that we can accord. The cricketers need to be demoted to doing 'Bandar chaap dant manjan' ads.
Sourin

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