Sania Mirza predicts powerful future for Indian girls’s tennis

File pic of Sania Mirza. Picture: Sania Mirza/ Twitter

Sania Mirza stated on Tuesday she doesn’t see an Indian expertise rising on the prime echelons of girls’s tennis within the fast future, however is hopeful that may change down the highway. The Indian tennis icon performed the ultimate match of her 20-year skilled profession earlier within the day, dropping alongside Madison Keys 6-4, 6-0 to Russian pair Liudmila Samsonova and Veronika Kudermetova on the Dubai Open.

A former doubles world primary and six-time Grand Slam champion in doubles and blended doubles, 36-year-old Mirza’s trailblazing journey has impressed numerous younger folks from her nation to take up tennis.

“Each time that we see a glimmer of hope, we see both they go to varsity, and after school they by no means type of come again to competing, or they’re simply not in a position to make that subsequent leap,” Mirza instructed reporters.

“When you’re speaking about somebody making an attempt to realize, not simply me as a benchmark, however greater than what I’ve, I actually really feel that it’ll most likely be somebody who’s possibly 5 or 6 years outdated as we speak.”

The best-ranked Indian lady in singles in the meanwhile is 30-year-old Ankita Raina, who stands at 245 on this planet, and the one different participant within the top-300 is Karman Thandi at 265.

Other than Mirza, there are simply two Indian girls within the top-200 in doubles.

“To see somebody who’s going to dominate on the highest stage, I don’t know if I see that within the fast 5 to 10-year future. That’s the trustworthy reality,” stated Mirza, who was accompanied by her four-year-old son Izhaan in her remaining press convention.

Apart from specializing in her tennis academies, Mirza has additionally taken on a mentorship function for the Royal Challengers Bangalore girls’s cricket staff within the Indian Premier League.

Decided to assist the subsequent technology of younger Indian women to “consider they are often champions”, Mirza sees this function as an important alternative to realize simply that.

“The entire idea of me being there has nothing to do with cricket. It truly has to do with the psychological side of issues with these youthful women,” she stated.

“They’ve by no means been in positions the place they’ve had a lot cash, hundreds of thousands using on them. A lot of them haven’t been on TV, haven’t finished advertisements, shoots.

“It’s really easy to get distracted from that stuff. It’s additionally very simple to tense up and really feel the stress as a result of there’s a lot expectation of you.

“I’ve clearly had that for the final 20 years of my life. So I really feel that at the least in that psychological side I’ll be capable of share my experiences in simply having to make them really feel extra comfy.

“It additionally will get me to do one thing the place I’m in a position to share my expertise in making an attempt to make girls’s sport higher and extra accepted, extra acknowledged for the longer term within the subcontinent.”

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