Sania Mirza Announces Her Retirement After the Completion of the 2022 Tennis Season Latest Tweet by Express Sports twitter Handle

 

 

Numerous accomplishments

Six-time Grand Slam champion, 42-time tour winner, the first Indian woman and third from the nation to be ranked No. 1 in doubles, the only Indian woman to crack the top 30 in singles, and a two-time Asian Games gold medalist. These are the statistics that highlight Mirza’s accomplishments, but even as a teenager, it was clear that she was destined for greatness.

“The first time I really engaged with her was during the 2002 Asian Games, when she was 15,” Vishal Uppal, India’s Billie Jean King Cup captain, remembers. “In the way she played, she embodied this mentality, this intensity. This fierce and assertive demeanour. Many players withdraw into themselves after a few unforced errors, but Sania continued to hit the ball in the manner she desired.”

“The previous year we lost in the final. (In 2009) she was ready to break through and win her first,” says Mahesh Bhupathi, who partnered Mirza to her first Major title. “She’s won six now, so she’s leaving quite a legacy. She will be remembered as the greatest women’s tennis player India has ever produced.”

Uppal adds: “She’s set the bar for women’s players from India. Younger generations will now have someone to try to match, and do better than.”

She’s set the standard, but didn’t have anybody’s shoes to fill herself. A benchmark hadn’t been set, and her rise was left to her own devices. There was no Indian woman to have won more than a round in singles at a Grand Slam, nobody had broken into the top 100. Nobody had won a tour title. Mirza did it all before her 20th birthday.

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