Sania Mirza retires: 5 data created by Indian tennis legend

Frome being World No 1 to successful Grand Slams, Sania Mirza maintain a number of data for an Indian lady tennis participant. (Supply: Twitter/Sania Mirza)

India legend Sania Mirza hung up her boots from skilled tennis on Tuesday after she and her American companion Madison Keys endured a primary spherical defeat on the girls’s doubles occasion within the WTA Dubai Open. The 36-year-old and Keys misplaced in straight units of 4-6, 0-6 to Russian pair Liudmila Samsonova and Veronika Kudermetova.

Final month, the Indian tennis legend reached the finals of the blended doubles contest on the Australian Open with Rohan Bopanna. Mirza had declared that the match was her final Grand Slam and that she would retire after the Dubai occasion.

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Sania Mirza, a trailblazer for feminine gamers in tennis, started her profession in 2003 and in her profession earned varied ‘firsts’. Because the six-time Grand Slam winner bows out of tennis, let’s check out her achievements:

First Indian lady to win a Grand Slam title

In her two-decade lengthy profession, Sania Mirza has gained six Grand Slams. The primary time she created historical past was with fellow Indian tennis legend Mahesh Bhupathi. The duo claimed the Australian Open blended doubles title in 2009, and Mirza grew to become the primary Indian lady to take dwelling a Grand Slam trophy. She later gained the French Open blended doubles with Bhupathi in 2012. In 2014, Sania partnered with Bruno Soares to take dwelling the US Open blended doubles. After that, she partnered efficiently with Martina Hingis to take dwelling the ladies’s doubles trophy on the Wimbledon and US Open in 2015 and the Australian Open in 2016.

First Indian lady to win a WTA title

As a 17-year-old breaking into aggressive tennis, Sania Mirza grew to become the primary Indian lady to win a WTA title in 2004. She paired up with Liezel Huber on the Hyderabad Open to win the doubles trophy. When she was 18, Mirza gained the one’s trophy on the identical occasion, not letting her wild card standing or video games towards seeded gamers like Maria Kirilenko, Zheng Jie and Alona Bondarenko pose any impediment. With this achievement, she grew to become the primary Indian lady to win a WTA singles occasion.

First Indian lady to be World No 1

Sania grew to become the primary Indian lady to achieve the No. 1 spot in both singles or doubles WTA rankings in 2015 after a doubles win at Charleston. She spent 91 weeks because the world No 1 in doubles and all through her profession gained 43 WTA doubles titles.

First Indian lady to interrupt into WTA’s high 30 singles rating

Sania Mirza was the primary Indian lady to interrupt into the highest 50 of the WTA singles rankings. In 2007, she achieved a career-high of world no. 27 in singles.

First Indian lady to achieve Grand Slams fourth spherical in singles

In 2005, Sania Mirza made extra historical past by reaching the 4 spherical on the US Open and turning into the primary Indian lady to achieve the fourth spherical within the singles competitors of a Grand Slam occasion. Her singles marketing campaign ended with a defeat to Maria Sharapova.

Sania Mirza is now set to start out one other chapter in her profession. The tennis legend will assume the place of mentor for Royal Challengers Bangalore on the Girls’s Premier League beginning in March this yr.

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