Sania Mirza quotes - page 3

Sania Mirza is an Indian professional tennis player who has been one of the country’s most successful female athletes. Known for her powerful forehand and trailblazing achievements in both singles and doubles, she inspired a new generation of Indian sportswomen. She has won multiple Grand Slam titles in doubles and mixed doubles events. Here are 58 of her quotes:

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

Sania Mirza

Indian doubles tennis ace Sania Mirza recently achieved a career-best rank of number five in the world when the new Women's Tennis Association doubles chart was released after the Wimbledon Championships concluded in July 2014.

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She is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 7 in doubles. She knows from her early experiences about the hardships that tennis players from India have to endure in order to become a successful professional. She had a long cherished vision for Tennis in India. The Vision - "To pave a way for Indian Tennis by training and promoting urban and rural talent and to enable our players to make a significant mark in the world of international tennis."

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The fastest rising star in women's tennis is adored by millions in her home country. But the Muslim teenager has been denounced by extremist clerics for dressing in a 'corrupting' way. Now she needs bodyguards to provide constant protection.

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Her breezy optimism as she took on some of the world's top players endeared her to her compatriots: for just as India was beginning to emerge as a world power, here was a young woman displaying a brazen determination to shake off the shackles of the underdog. Off-court, too, her confidence was striking. Confounding stereotypes of demure and retiring Indian femininity, she delighted in brash displays of adolescent attitude.

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We are proud of her achievement. In India there are not many other young female role models like her.

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She is very typical of her generation - these new teenagers who are not quite the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll generation of Sixties America but who are very in your face, very confident and very brash. This kind of attitude is not unique to her: you see teenagers like her in the streets. She represents a new India that doesn't care what anyone thinks.

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