She initially wanted to retire from the sport at the end of last season, but her elbow injury kept her out of the U.S. Open and forced her to end the 2022 season as early as August.
Post Date – 11:00 AM, Saturday – 1/7/23
Dubai: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has announced she will be retiring from the sport after next month’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, a Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) 1000 event.
She initially wanted to retire from the sport at the end of last season, but her elbow injury kept her out of the U.S. Open and forced her to end the 2022 season as early as August. The six-time Grand Slam champion, who has won three titles each in doubles and mixed doubles, will play alongside Kazakhstan’s Anna Danielina in this year’s Australian Tennis Tournament, which opens on January 16. Open.
Mirza, 36, who has lived in Dubai for more than a decade, is looking forward to retiring from sport there, where she has represented India in front of huge crowds for years.
“I was going to stop after the WTA Finals because we were going to the WTA Finals, but I tore the tendon in my elbow before the US Open, so I had to withdraw from all tournaments,” Mirza said. The quote comes from wtatennis.com in Dubai.
“Honestly, that’s who I am and I like to do things my way. So I don’t want to be pushed away by injuries. So I’ve been training.” That didn’t stop her from pursuing the farewell she wanted in her own way.
“The plan is to try to retire in Dubai during the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships,” she said.
Mirza, the mother of a four-year-old boy, recently opened a tennis academy in Dubai. It’s already operating at three locations and is moving into two more neighborhoods in the coming weeks.
The singles highest-ranked No. 27 Mirza will play her final bout, which kicks off on Feb. 19. She has peaked at world No. 1 in doubles and became the first Indian player to reach the title in 2015. In women’s doubles, she has won the Australian Open (2016), Wimbledon (2015), and the US Open (2015). She also won the Australian Open (2009), French Open (2012) and US Open (2014) in mixed doubles.
