First Indian Woman Grand Slam Winner- Sania Mirza

Tennis is one of the most popular sports in the sports industry. But in India tennis is not much popular. Tennis is getting its popularity by some of the great players of the sport who made the name and their country proud by the sport. Buy some players a sport get popular and people or youth choose it as their career. That one player of tennis in India is none other than Sania Mirza. Sania Mirza is the player because of whom tennis in India is getting popular. So let us know about her and her achievements in brief.

Sania Mirza is an Indian tennis star. She was born on 15 November 1986 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. My father's name is Mr. Imran Mirza and her mother's name is Mrs. Nasima Mirza. Her father was an author and journalist. She started lawn tennis with her father from the time she was only 6 years old. Mirza attended Nasr School in Hyderabad. She graduated from St. Mary's College but her real goal was to become a professional tennis player and to that end, she started taking part in a tournament in India. In 2001, she started playing in the ITF tournaments and the following year she won three titles cementing her pretentious as an upcoming player. The following year she won a bronze medal in the Bhushan Asian games in the mixed doubles. She turned into a professional in 2003 and started playing in major tournaments. Subsequently, she won the Girl's Double Title at the Wimbledon Championships and the U.S. Open Girl's Doubles semifinals the same year. The same year she also won four gold medals in the Afro-Asian Games held in Hyderabad. From 2004 onwards, she started to taste success in the WTA circuit and won a doubles title, at the AP Tourism Hyderabad open. Additionally, she won 6 singles titles in the ITF circuit as well. However, the following year she performed particularly well in the Grand Slam as she reached the third round of the Australian Open. Women's Single tournament 2nd round at Wimbledon and 4th round at the U.S. Open. She was awarded the Arjuna award from the Government of India in 2004. In 2006, she became the first female from India to have seemed at the Grand Slam when she was seated at the Australian Open but she could not go for in the tournament. In 2006 she was awarded Padma Shri by the government of India full stop in 2008 she won her first Grand Slam ' Australian Open Mixed Doubles Title' with Mahesh Bhupathi. In 2011, she and her partner Elena reach the final of the French Open full stop in 2015 Mirza partnered with Hingis to Wimbledon in straight sets and that constituted her first Grand Slam win women's doubles. They also won the 2015 WTA finals and followed it up in the US Open in the same year. The following years the Mirza engaged you won the Australian Open women's double championship. In 2015 she was honored with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the year later she was awarded Padma Bhushan.