Sania Mirza was born in Mumbai, India on
the 15th November, 1986 to Mr. Imran Mirza and Naseema. Sania
Mirza’s father Imran was a sports journalist previously after that he went
into the printing business and finally he became a builder and her mother
Naseema was associated with the printing industry. The family later
relocated themselves in the city of Hyderabad. Saniya Mirza got her
schooling from Nasr School Khairat abad and passed her SSC examination with
first division securing 63% marks.
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Sania Mirza has got a younger sister by the
name of Anam. Saniya was drawn to the lawn tennis by her father; she started
playing tennis at the tender age of six at Nizam Club Hyderabad. When
Saniya was first taken to the coach he refused to coach her, later on after
a week he called up the parents of Saniya and told them that he has never
seen such a talent at such a tender age. Her initial training was handled
by CK Bhupati father of Mahesh Bhupati, the legendary Indian tennis player.
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Sania Mirza’s father was unable to take
care of the expenses of the training of Saniya therefore he approached some
business houses for help, GVK industries and Adidas started to sponsor her
from the age of 12 years. Later on her father Imran took over as her coach.
Her physiotherapist is Badrinath.
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Sania Mirza learnt the professional tennis
at Sinnet Tennis Academy in Secunderabad after that she moved to the Ace
Tennis Academy in the United States. Currently her professional career is
being managed by Global Sports, a company associated with Mahesh Bhupati
and she has appointed Bob Brett who was previously the coach of Boris
Becker as a specialist advisor.
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Sania Mirzaa started playing in
international tournaments from the year 1999 when she first represented
India in the World Junior Championship, Jakarta; after that Saniya went on
to participate in the Asian Games in the year with Peas where she won a
bronze medal. She again did India proud when she figured in the main draw
for the girls doubles junior Wimbledon Tennis tournament with a 13 year old
Russian player Alisa Kleybanova and won the Grand Slam title. Doing so
Saniya became the first youngest Indian player to do so.
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Sania
Mirzaa has won 22 ITF titles up till now. In the year 2005
Sania Mirza created waves in the tennis world when she reached to the 3rd
and 4th rounds of many Grand Slam tournaments. She has a very
powerful forehand (Double handed backhand) and serves an array of strokes.
She is greatly influenced by the German player Steffi Graff. she has been awarded with india big award the padmashri award.
She fell in many scandals like flag
scandal, religious matters etc.
Marital status
She has been Married in 2005 to shuaib
maalik of Pakistan, a professional cricketer of Pakistan cricket team. Both
are living in Dubai now.
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