tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-176448262024-09-11T19:19:02.867-07:00Sania Mirza is a boon to Indian Tennis and Indian sports.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger454125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17644826.post-22773438573950223532010-09-14T12:22:00.000-07:002010-09-14T12:22:26.349-07:00

The Indian (rising?) tennis star Sania Mirza on Monday said that she and her husband Shoaib would never appear in TV reality show Big Boss season 4 and said even if such an offers comes, they are not interested to participate.There was a rumor that Sania and Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer, would be one of the star couples who will feature in the new edition of Big Boss which is&

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The newly wedded couple Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricket player Shoaib Malik are expected to participate in the TV show Bigg Boss season 4. But because of the ongoing controversies on match fixing in Pakistani cricket, it becomes difficult for Shoaib Malik to appear on Indian screen. There are rumours that Rahul Mahajan who has earlier been the part of Bigg Boss2 would be back in this

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Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek overcame a fighting Russian pair of Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva to book a semifinal berth in the $600,000 WTA East West Bank Classic tournament.The Indo-American pair, seeded second, pipped the Russian duo 6-3, 1-6, 10-8 in one hour and 14 minutes in the quarter-finals of the Tier II hard court event last night.Sania-Mattek did not drop their serve even once

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Out-of-action Sania Mirza was down one spot to 33rd in the singles chart but held on to her 19th position in the doubles’ list in the WTA rankings released on Monday. Mahesh Bhupathi remained static, while Leander Paes dropped a couple of rungs in the ATP doubles rankings.Bhupathi stayed at 11th despite he and Mark Knowles (Bahamas) pulling out in the second round of last week’s Munich Open.

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A right wrist injury has forced India's Sania Mirza to withdraw from the $2.1 million Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament in Miami.Sania, seeded 29th in the Masters event, had been battling the injury since her pre-quarterfinal appearance in the Pacific Life Open last week.The 21-year-old was handed a bye in the first round along with other seeds and was to take on wildcard Sabine Lisicki of

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If there is one sports person in India who has acquired the status of a Bollywood star, it undoubtedly is Sania Mirza. Still below sixties in world ranking, she is yet to reach the pinnacle of her chosen profession.Yet she is already a talking point worldwide. Even the Chinese media has included Sania Mirza among the world’s all-time ‘Top 10 Tennis Beauties’ along with Russian star Maria

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Sania Mirza slipped out of the top 30, losing three positions to be 32nd in the latest WTA rankings issued on Monday.Sania, who plays at the Qatar Open this week, however, maintained her doubles ranking at 23.India’s second best woman player, the U.S.-based Sunitha Rao, had her singles ranking intact at 182.In the ATP list, the doubles duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have maintained their

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Given the game of competitive intolerance that's often encouraged by politicians - which these columns have been warning about - something like this was waiting to happen. Sania Mirza has declined to play in the $600,000 Bangalore Open, where she would have been a big draw along with the Americans Serena and Venus Williams. She says she has no problems representing India, it's just that there

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India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna fell by the wayside at the Australian Open on Monday.Sixth seeds Sania and Alicia Molik of Australia lost 5-7, 3-6 to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Israel's Shahar Peer, seeded 12th, in the third round of women's doubles.Sania is still in the running in the mixed doubles event with Mahesh Bhupathi. The Indian duo face a tough task against second seeds

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Fighting one controversy after another ever since her rise to prominence has taken a toll on Sania Mirza's morale and even forced her to consider quitting the game but the Indian tennis ace says she has gradually learnt not to get rattled by off-court furores."Yeah, it is painful... You know you can never get used to things like that. Of course, it does hurt you, because you are playing for your

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Sania Mirza survived a brief lapse of concentration before advancing to the third round of the Australian Open on Thursday with a 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 victory against Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky.Sania started off in smashing fashion as she took the first set 6-1 in just 22 minutes, but the Swiss world number 119 fought back in the second set.The 31st-seeded Indian also didn't help her cause with a

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The Darul-Uloom Deoband on Friday said it has not issued any fatwa against the tennis player Sania Mirza, a day after Hyderabad Police lodged a case against her for shooting a commercial at the Mecca Masjid there."It is not the job of the seminary to watch the activities of player Sania (Mirza). The seminary has not issued any fatwa," Mufti Habiburrehman, the in-charge of the fatwa department of

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Sania Mirza has apologized for hurting ''religious sentiments'' in an attempt to defuse the row over the shooting of a commercial featuring the tennis star at the historic Mecca Masjid for which she faced a trespass case.''I would like to apologise to all my brothers and sisters and respected elders who are anguished by my unwittingly entering a portion of the land belonging to Mecca Masjid,''

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The shooting of a commercial advertisement featuring tennis star Sania Mirza at the historic Mecca Masjid here has sparked a row with the minorities welfare department seeking a report from the mosque officials.The ad was shot on Tuesday without the permission of the department, which is responsible for the upkeep of the 17th century mosque. The shooting also evoked protest from the

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Former tennis ace Vijay Amritraj believes Sania Mirza’s improvement in rankings will depend entirely on her fitness levels.“She will need to keep herself fit throughout the next season and play as many matches as possible. Losing out on tournaments due to lack of fitness will mean a dip in her rankings,” Amritraj said here.Pointing out that the Sania had been a victim of several injuries in the

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Sania Mirza is current youth icon of India. Sania Mirza created history in tennis by becoming the 1st ever Indian to break into the TOP50 WTA rankings. Sania's stellar play and winning personality has won her an Arjuna Award, India's top sports honorSania Mirza only 20 has a huge fan base in India and is turning heads all over the world. Sania Mirza is celebrated and adulated for her attitude

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Sania Mirza and her mother Nasima share more than a mother-daughter bond. They also share a birthday. On Thursday, November 15, as the Indian ace's 21st birthday broke, Nasima, along with husband Imran and younger daughter Anam, watched as wonder gave way to joy, when an unsuspecting Sania, was led into a surprise party, the family had organised for her and her close group of friends at a luxury

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Out of action due to a stomach injury, Sania Mirza hopes to improve her performance in the 2008 season and make the top 20 of the WTA rankings."I am playing my best and will strive to achieve a ranking of 20 before the end of the 2008 season," Sania said at promotional event here on Wednesday.The 32-ranked player tried to avoid questions on the issue of match-fixing in the men’s circuit saying, "

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Sania Mirza moved up one place in the doubles ranking to the 18th position, while she clung on to the 32nd place for the fourth consecutive week in the singles chart of the latest WTA rankings.The 20-year-old Hyderabadi, who has been out of the circuit because of a stomach injury, will be back in action in the Hopman Cup along with upcoming Rohan Bopanna.Meanwhile, in the ATP rankings there were

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Tennis star Sania Mirza on her time off is doing more than just relaxing. Sania is to appear in an ad campaign of her home town Hyderabad's municipal corporation, designed to motivate voters to seek voter Id cards. Sania joins cricketer V V S Laxman and a host of celebrities, who will feature in the campaign over the next one month.Sania Mirza is on a different turf these days, practicing her

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An abrupt injury-enforced pullout from the final leg of the season is proving to be a blessing in disguise for Sania Mirza.After returning home in mid-October after a stomach muscle injury, the 20-year-old said she is enjoying life away from the tennis courts."It's after two years that I got a long break and I want to enjoy every bit of it. I don't want to think about tennis now," Sania told TOI

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Tennis star Sania Mirza returned home after cutting short the last-leg of her schedule for the year as she pulled her stomach muscle in the quarterfinal against Flavia Pennetta in Japan two weeks ago.“With the specific objective of finishing in the top 25 of the world rankings and thereby getting a direct seeding in next year’s Australian Open, Sania played on despite considerable discomfort in

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A stomach muscle injury has cut short Sania Mirza's 2007 season in its final leg, leaving the 20-year-old's hopes of being seeded at next year's Australian Open hanging in balance. Mirza suffered the injury during her quarterfinal loss to Flavia Pennetta in Japan two weeks ago but played in the Tier I tournaments of Moscow and Zurich with aim of reaching her season's goal of reaching number 25

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Sania Mirza and her partner Patty Schnyder have been knocked out of the first round in the women's doubles of the Zurich Open.The pair was beaten by Shuai Peng of Chin and Meilen Tu of the United States in straight sets 3-6, 1-6.Earlier, the 20-year-old India had been knocked out in the first round of the singles' event of the $1.3 million Zurich Open.Sania lost in straight sets to Michaella

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Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna have been given direct entry for this year's Hopman Cup on the basis of their surprise good show in the last edition of the event.The duo is the fourth team to be given direct entry for the 20th edition of the tournament slated from December 29 to January 4 in Perth.Last year, India qualified for the event after winning the inaugural Asian Hopman Cup. They went on to

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