Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza may retire from professional sports at next month's Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
Dubai: Indian Tennis star Sania Mirza will retire from professional sports at next month’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
She is a former world number one in the doubles event of the game.
Mirza, who remained one of the major dominating female Tennis players of India, initially intended to hang up her racquet at the end of last season, but an elbow injury ruled her out of the US Open and forced her to end 2022 as early as August.
Mirza has signed up to compete in this month’s Australian Open alongside Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina.
“I was going to stop right after the WTA Finals, because we were going to make the WTA Finals, but I tore my tendon in my elbow right before US Open so I had to pull out of everything,” Mirza told wtatennis.com last month in Dubai.
“And honestly, the person that I am, I like to do things on my own terms. So I don’t want to be forced out by injury. So I’ve been training," she said.
The tournament will begin Feb 19.
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