The 2022 tennis season is likely to be Sania Mirza’s last. The 35-year-old comeback mom pegged her decision on injuries, a missing spark and her three-year old son Izhaan, who is of school-going age.
The former world No.1 dropped the bomb shell rather casually during a post-match press-conference at the Australian Open.
“I’m pretty sure that this is my last season, if I do finish it,” she added as an afterthought. “I’m not going to be back in Australia to play the Australian Open again.”
“I have had some great memories, great results in singles, doubles and mixed-doubles here. I have been able to do that over 20 years of my career (from 2001). It has been a great journey for me,” she said. “I’m literally taking it one tour nament at a time, going week to week with my body, the virus, the travel. There is so much uncertainty.”
This story is from the January 20, 2022 edition of The Times of India Mumbai.
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