India’s tennis ace Sania Mirza on Wednesday has introduced that 2022 shall be her closing season on the WTA tour.
Sania’s announcement got here after her first-round loss in girls’s doubles.
Sania and her associate Ukrainian associate Nadiia Kichenok, misplaced 4-6 6-7(5) to the Slovenian staff of Tamara Zidansek and Kaja Juvan in a single hour and 37 minutes. Kichenok was off-colour right now as unforced errors stored flowing from her racquet all through the competition.
“There’s a few reasons for it. It’s not as simple as ‘okay I’m not going to play’. I do feel my recovery is taking longer, I’m putting my 3-year-old son at risk by travelling so much with him, that’s something I have to take into account. I think my body is wearing down. My knee was really hurting today and I’m not saying that’s the reason we lost but I do think that it is taking time to recover as I’m getting older,” Sania mentioned after the broadcasters after the match.
“Also for me to find that motivation everyday to come out. The energy is not the same anymore. There are more days than there used to be where I don’t feel like doing that. I’ve always said that I will play until I enjoy that grind, the process which I’m not sure I’m enjoying as much anymore,” provides Sania, who’s the primary Indian lady to win a Grand Slam, has gained Majors in doubles together with medals at Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.
Sania,35, is a former world No. 1 in doubles and had a career-best rating of 27 in singles. She is at the moment ranked 68th on the earth.
Sania Mirza’slast grand slam got here on the 2016 Australian Open with Martina Hingis. Her final title got here in September 2021, when she gained her forty third doubles trophy on the Ostrava Open with Shuai Zhang.
“I was very sure that this was going to be my last season when I started the year or even in December. Just the way my body is playing, I don’t think I can finish the season. I want to play the full season, I’m still 50-60 in the world, I played nine tournaments last year. I do think I have the level to play, it’s not about that. As an athlete, I think I can go deep into tournaments,” says the three-time girls’s doubles and blended sdoubles Grand Slam winner.
