Indian Trailblazer Sania Mirza Plans to Retire at Dubai

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday January 6, 2022

Indian trailblazer Sania Mirza – a six-time Grand Slam champion with three titles in doubles and three in blended and a former World No.1 – has introduced that she’s going to retire on the Dubai Obligation Free Tennis Championships subsequent month.

Mirza, who had deliberate to hold up the racquet in 2022, modified her choice when she was compelled to chop her season brief as a consequence of an elbow harm.

Mirza was a pressure on the singles court docket as nicely, the place she gained a title and reached No.43 on the planet, however her greatest successes got here on the doubles court docket. She was a part of the WTA’s doubles group of the yr in 2015, when she and Martina Hingis dominated the tour and carried out a 44-match successful streak.

India’s trailblazer and former doubles No.1 Sania Mirza is ready to retire at subsequent month’s Dubai Obligation Free Tennis Championships.

“I turned professional in 2003. Priorities change, and now my precedence is to not push my physique to the restrict each single day.”

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She gained 43 doubles titles and spent 91 weeks at No.1.

Mirza was additionally named in Time journal’s 2016 checklist of the 100 most influential folks on the planet.

“I’m 36, and truthfully my physique is beat, that’s the important purpose for it,” Mirza mentioned, in keeping with WTATennis and Curry Tales Center East. “And I actually don’t have the capability in my thoughts to emotionally push that a lot anymore. I turned professional in 2003. Priorities change, and now my precedence is to not push my physique to the restrict each single day.”