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 combined and a former World No.1 – has introduced that she’s going to retire on the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships subsequent month.
Mirza, who had deliberate to hold up the racquet in 2022, modified her resolution when she was pressured to chop her season brief attributable to an elbow damage.
Mirza was a power on the singles courtroom as effectively, the place she gained a title and reached No.43 on this planet, however her largest successes got here on the doubles courtroom. She was a part of the WTA’s doubles staff of the 12 months in 2015, when she and Martina Hingis dominated the tour and carried out a 44-match profitable streak.
India’s trailblazer and former doubles No.1 Sania Mirza is ready to retire at subsequent month’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
“I turned pro in 2003. Priorities change, and now my priority is not to push my body to the limit every 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 record of the 100 most influential folks on this planet.
“I’m 36, and honestly my body is beat, that is the main reason for it,” Mirza stated, in response to WTATennis and Curry Tales Middle East. “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.”