NEW DELHI: Former doubles No.1 Sania Mirza has showed her plans to retire from skilled tennis at Dubai Tennis Championshipsa WTA 1000 match, which starts on February 19.
The 36-year-old Mirza to start with supposed to hold up her racquet on the finish of closing season, however an elbow damage dominated her out of the US Open and compelled her to finish 2022 as early as August.
A six-time main champion — 3 in doubles and 3 in blended doubles — Mirza has signed as much as compete on this month’s Australian Open along Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina,
The India tennis big name who has been residing in Dubai for greater than a decade, will then glance to bid farewell to the game within the Emirates, the place she has competed for a few years in entrance of her large fanbase.
Mirza has been coping with a lingering calf downside however is hoping it may not forestall her from announcing her goodbyes at the fit courtroom.
“I was going to stop right after the WTA Finalsbecause we were going to make the WTA Finals, but I tore my tendon in my elbow right before the US Open so I had to pull out of everything,” Sania advised wtatennis.com.
“And honestly, the person that I am, I like to do things on my own terms. So I don’t want to be forced out by injury. So I’ve been training. The plan is to try and retire in Dubai during the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships,” she added.
In a contemporary interview with “Curly Tales Middle East,” Sania defined why she believed now used to be the best time.
“I’m 36, and honestly my body is beat, that is the main reason for it. And I really don’t have the capacity in my mind to emotionally push that much anymore. I turned pro in 2003. Priorities change, and Now my priority is not to push my body to the limit every single day,” the Indian stated.
A mom to 4-year-old boy Izhaan, Mirza has just lately introduced a tennis academy in Dubai, which already operates in 3 places and can challenge into two extra neighborhoods within the coming weeks.
“We’re trying to spread and bring tennis to people’s homes, and that’s really the plan,” stated Sania, who peaked at No.27 on the earth in singles.
“I feel like why don’t we have players coming out of the UAE when you have money, you have infrastructure, you have everything, but you don’t have the players? There’s a problem somewhere so we’ve got to tap on the problem, whatever it may be, and try to be part of a solution.
For me it’s important to share my experience in the places that I live in, that’s why I have one in Hyderabad [since 2013] and one in Dubai,” she concluded.
The 36-year-old Mirza to start with supposed to hold up her racquet on the finish of closing season, however an elbow damage dominated her out of the US Open and compelled her to finish 2022 as early as August.
A six-time main champion — 3 in doubles and 3 in blended doubles — Mirza has signed as much as compete on this month’s Australian Open along Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina,
The India tennis big name who has been residing in Dubai for greater than a decade, will then glance to bid farewell to the game within the Emirates, the place she has competed for a few years in entrance of her large fanbase.
Mirza has been coping with a lingering calf downside however is hoping it may not forestall her from announcing her goodbyes at the fit courtroom.
“I was going to stop right after the WTA Finalsbecause we were going to make the WTA Finals, but I tore my tendon in my elbow right before the US Open so I had to pull out of everything,” Sania advised wtatennis.com.
“And honestly, the person that I am, I like to do things on my own terms. So I don’t want to be forced out by injury. So I’ve been training. The plan is to try and retire in Dubai during the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships,” she added.
In a contemporary interview with “Curly Tales Middle East,” Sania defined why she believed now used to be the best time.
“I’m 36, and honestly my body is beat, that is the main reason for it. And I really don’t have the capacity in my mind to emotionally push that much anymore. I turned pro in 2003. Priorities change, and Now my priority is not to push my body to the limit every single day,” the Indian stated.
A mom to 4-year-old boy Izhaan, Mirza has just lately introduced a tennis academy in Dubai, which already operates in 3 places and can challenge into two extra neighborhoods within the coming weeks.
“We’re trying to spread and bring tennis to people’s homes, and that’s really the plan,” stated Sania, who peaked at No.27 on the earth in singles.
“I feel like why don’t we have players coming out of the UAE when you have money, you have infrastructure, you have everything, but you don’t have the players? There’s a problem somewhere so we’ve got to tap on the problem, whatever it may be, and try to be part of a solution.
For me it’s important to share my experience in the places that I live in, that’s why I have one in Hyderabad [since 2013] and one in Dubai,” she concluded.