Tennis Player Sania Mirza Personal life, marriage, struggle, career and Education

Indian Athletes are doing their best in the Sports World today. Sania Mirza, the phenomenal Tennis player from India is very famous all over the World. 

Born on November 15th,1986, she is the former doubles World No.1 & she has won 6 major titles in Tennis (3 in Mixed Doubles and 3 in Women’s Double).

Sania Mirza Personal Information

• Sania was born on November 15th, 1986 (37 years as per 2023) in a Hyderabadi Muslim family in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
• Imran Mirza (Father) was a sports journalist and Naseema (Mother) worked in a Printing Business.
• Her family was a Sunni Muslim family and she & Anam (her sister) were brought up in Hyderabad. 
• She was a distant relative of Ghulam Ahmed (Former Indian Cricket Captain), & he was her Great-Uncle.
• She started playing tennis at the age of six. She has been coached by both her father and Roger Anderson.
• At present, Sania Mirza’s net worth is INR 200 Crores.

Sania Mirza Education Qualification

• She did her schooling from Nasr School in Hyderabad. She completed her graduation from St.Mary’s College, Hyderabad.
• On December 11th, 2008, she received an honorary Degree from M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute in Chennai of Doctor of Letters.. Sania Mirza Best in Her Career

Mixed Doubles

• In 2009, Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the title Mixed Doubles in Australian Open Tennis tournament.
• In 2012, Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the Mixed Doubles in French Open Tennis tournament.
• In 2014, Sania Mirza and Bruno Soares won the Mixed Doubles in US Open Tennis tournament.

Women’s Doubles

• In 2015, Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the Women’s Doubles in Wimbledon Championship of Tennis tournament.
• In 2015, Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the Women’s Doubles in US Open Championship of Tennis tournament.
• In 2016, Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the Women’s Doubles in Australian Open Championship of Tennis tournament.

Sania Mirza Achievement

• She was India's first female tennis player to reach the World No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on April 12, 2015. 
• She has won a total of 8 Asian Games Medals - 2 Golds, 3 Silvers & 3 Bronze. 
• She has won 2 Commonwealth Games Medals - 1 Silver & 1 Bronze.
• She has won 4 Olympic Participation Medals - Beijing (2008), London (2012), Rio (2016) & Tokyo (2020).

Sania Mirza Marriage 

• Sania Mirza got married to the famous Pakistani Cricketer, Shoaib Malik on April 12, 2010. She was blessed with a baby boy back on October 30th, 2018.
• Mirza proposed to Malik in 2009. Their wedding took place in the Taj Krishna Hotel in Hyderabad following the Pakistani Wedding tradition of Mahr.
• Their Walima was celebrated in Sialkot, Pakistan, which is the hometown of Malik.
• Anam, her sister, got married to Mohammad Asaduddin, who is the son of Mohammad Azharuddin (Indian National Cricket team Former captain).

Sania Mirza Struggles

• Sania Mirza is an amazing Tennis player and she also faced the same scenarios and problems that any other emerging female athlete could have faced. 
• She felt her achievements to be underrated by her own countrymen themselves, and felt that she wasn’t emotionally supported by the Indian audience.
• She suffered to find her place in the society and struggled to make a balance between her dreams and aims. Her ventures were often blocked by fanatics.
• She started her career as a professional in 2003 and went through a series of humiliations and disregard for her achievements. 
• Her haters claimed that the single circuit is too difficult for her to succeed when she earned the top spot in the double rankings since 2003.
• In 2012, she suffered a wrist injury but she rose up as an inspiration for many Indian young girls.

As per Sania:

“She discovered that she was frequently used as the culprit in the federation's politics as the cheerful young girl, who had been defined by a deep-seated passion for tennis since she was 6 years old, faced the harsh reality of being a sportsperson.”

Sania Mirza National Awards 

The National awards won by Sana Mirza are:

• Arjuna Award in 2004
• WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2005
• Padma Shri in 2006
• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2015
• Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2015
• Times Magazine list of 100 Influential People in the world in 2016
• BBC list of 100 inspiring women in 2015
• Padma Bhushan in 2016
• NRI of the Year in 2016

Sania Mirza Interesting Facts

• Mirza was honored as India’s best Tennis Player from 2003 to 2013 by Women’s Tennis Association. Let's have a look at various interesting facts about Sania Mirza:
• She is the first Indian Women to win a Women’s Doubles Grand Slam. She won 3 Women Doubles Grand Slams with Martina Hingis as her partner in the game.
• She won the Australian Open in 2009, the French Open in 2012 and the US Open in 2014.
• She began exercising with her father at the age of 12. Imran Mirza also gave up his own journalism goals o]in order to support his daughter with her dreams.
• She became the first Indian woman to Win a WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) Championship.
• As a Junior Tennis Player, she has won 10 singles titles and 13 doubles titles in the initial part of her career.
• She became the first woman to hold a position of UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia.

Sania Mirza Retirement Announcement

• Sania Mirza, the greatest Indian Tennis Star, retired from her 20 Years Long Tennis Career Back in March, 2023.
• On March 5, 2023, Indian tennis veteran Sania Mirza said her final goodbyes as a player with "happy tears" at the venue where it all started.

Conclusion

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