Sania Mirza started her farewell season on the WTA Tour with a first-round loss in doubles at Adelaide International 2 on Monday.
Sania and her Kazakh accomplice Anna Danilina went down 6-3, 3-6, [6-10] to the top-seeded Czech-Australian pair of Barbora Krejcikova and Storm Hunter.
In an interview with the WTA web site on Friday, Sania introduced that WTA 1000 occasion in Dubai in February can be her ultimate competitors. “Honestly, the person that I am, I like to do things on my terms. So, I don’t want to be forced out by injury. So, I have been training,” she instructed wtatennis.com.
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“I can’t emotionally push that much anymore. I turned pro in 2003,” the 36-year-old was quoted as saying by WTA. “Priorities change, and now my priority is not to push my body to the limit every single day,” she added.
Sania is a former doubles world no. 1. She has gained six Grand Slam titles collectively in ladies’s and blended doubles.
Initially, she needed to give up on the finish of 2022. But an elbow harm dominated her out of the US Open and compelled her to finish the season as early as August.