SANIA MIRZA

SANIA MIRZA Is a professional Indian tennis player. She began her tennis career in 2003 and is well known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. She is the first ever Indian to break into the top 30 WTA rankings. Sania has defeated many top players, including Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva, Marion Bartoli and Martina Hingis.

Mirza has won one WTA singles title so far, at Hyderabad in 2005. She has also won the mixed doubles event at the 2009 Australian Open, and was the runner-up at the women's doubles event at Roland Garros, 2011.
She is married to A Muslim boy Shoaib Malik who is a cricket star of pakistan team.


In 2004 she was awarded the Arjuna award by the Indian Government. In 2006, Mirza was awarded a Padma Shri, India's fourth highest honour for her achievements as a tennis player.[1] In March 2010, The Economic Times named Mirza in the list of the "33 women who made India proud".[2] Sania was also the most searched sportsperson on Google in 2009 in India.