| Name
/ Title |
SANIA MIRZA |
| Date of
Birth |
November 15, 1986 (Born in
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) |
| Identity |
Indian Professional Tennis Player |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 2004: She was decorated
with Arjuna Award.
- October 2005: She was named
one of the '50 heroes of Asia' by Time.
- 2006: She received the
PADMA SHRI Award from Govt. of India.
- August 27, 2007: She
attained the highest ranking of 27 in Singles on this day.
- February 04, 2008: She said
that she would stop appearing in tennis tournaments held in
India, citing the series of controversies; but she chose to
participate at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
- December 11, 2008: Mirza
received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the
MGR Educational and Research Institute University in Chennai
on this day.
- March 2010: The Economic
Times named Mirza in the list of the "33 women who made
India proud".
- April 12, 2010: She married
Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik.
- June 07, 2012: In the
French Open mixed doubles, she and Bhupathi won the crown by
defeating Santiago González of Mexico and Klaudia
Jans-Ignacik of Poland in the final on this day.
- June 26, 2012: She was
awarded a wild card entry hence confirming her participation
in women's doubles event of the London Olympics.
- July 17, 2012: She and her
partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands were ousted in the first round
of WTA Premier event in USA.
- November 25, 2013: She was
appointed as the UN Women's Goodwill Ambassador for South
Asia during the event held to mark the International Day To
End Violence Against Women on this day.
- April 13, 2015: She
attained highest rank of 1 in doubles on this day.
- 2015: She received Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
- November 21, 2016: She
retained her highest ranking of 1 in doubles on this day.
- 2016: In the 2016
Australian Open they were seeded first and won the Doubles
title which is Mirza's third Grandslam title.
- 2016: She received the
PADMA BHUSHAN Award from Govt. of India.
- 2016: She was named in Time
magazine's 2016 list of the 100 most influential people in
the world.
- January 27, 2017: Sania
Mirza and her Croatian mixed doubles partner Ivan Dodig
entered the final of the Australian Open 2017 after
defeating the Aussie pair of Sam Stosur and Sam Groth in
three sets. This will be Sania's fourth mixed doubles final
at the Australian Open after having won the trophy in 2009
and finished runner-up in 2008 and 2014.
|
| General |
- Throughout her career, she has established herself as
one of the highest-paid and high-profile athletes in India.
- From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she
was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as India's No.1
player, both in singles and doubles.
- In her career, Mirza has notable wins over Svetlana
Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva and Marion Bartoli; as well as
former World No. 1s Martina Hingis, Dinara Safina, and
Victoria Azarenka.
- She is the highest ranked female player ever from India,
with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 5 in
doubles.
- She is also the third Indian woman in the Open Era to
feature and win a round at a Grand Slam tournament.
- On top, she has won a total of 14 medals (including 6
Gold) at three major multi-sport events, namely the Asian
Games, the Commonwealth Games and the Afro-Asian Games.
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