sania is a good player iam watching her since childhood. everybody not the perfect in their fields but in this age she is trying to give best of her. In india there r no gud grounds & no competetive player in front of her to practice. i think she will win in the future best of luck my dear saanu.
her hype doesnt match with the performance, also the adverts, and all that money showered to ONE individual isnt fair. same holds good with indians who are undeserving of SO MUCH attention. reduce the attention, its the corporates who are betting big on ordinary players. give a few good ads to overseas players - see how our players will automatically start owning up responsibility. give ricky ponting a better deal than sachin - and others. :)
Sania can not be ALL hype and ZERO talent. Then she could not have won against some top ranking tennis players. But the hype created by the media is certainly way too much than she actually achieved. And it is detrimental to Sanai as well as for the Indian tennis also. Because now some good looking girls (better, if they are little voluptous like Sania) may start playing tennis. They may conveniently forget that main focus point is tennis, not how they look or they dress. Sania is still looks like a rich man's daughter with some tennis talent. She is physically and mentally not tough enough to break the top 20 as yet (though I hope she will). Sania needs to be more consistent. But Indian sports are always like this - they (may) have the potential but very inconsistent, except some very few, such as Anand etc. We are basically 'sports watcher' not a 'sporty' nation. By nature we are reluctant to physical activities.
The problem with us is we never had any sporting greats or heroes apart from Vishwanathan Anand,Kapil Dev and Leander paes,so if anyone from any sports does a small achievement it is hyped by our media as they are also starved of some great sports person.Tell me one sports we are at the top.A huge hype was created when narain karthikeyan participated in the F1 common guys he did not win in F1 just participated similarly Sania is another hugely hyped up sports person.Give me a break guys she did not win any grand slam just a crapy tournament in india and she is being hailed like steffi graph by our media.Sania is just a one tournament wonder and lets leave it at that and expecting wonders from her is making fool of oneself. But the real heroes are the ones like Rajyawardhan Singh Rathore who won silver medal for india in 2004 athens olymbics and one could hardly see his news in the media whereas bigtime losers like our cricketers are being seen all over the sports page even after their drubbing in south africa.
I heard about top 10 or top 3 in all categories. But what is this "top 40"? People in India are happy or satisfied ("Sania got a ranking in the world's top 40"). Why can't we think beyond this? No body cares for TOP 40. People dont remember someone having rank 3. How can you be happy with top 40?
The whole India is going ga-ga over Sania when the performance is getting far from getting better and on the other side we have a real champion in M.C.Merykom who has conquered the world in the boxing ring not for the first time but for the Third consecutive time!!!!
On one hand Ms.Sania has an annual income of around Rs.2.5 crores and on the other hand M.C.Merykom the "Three time World Boxing Champion" is struggling for something as basic as a job!!!!!
This situation answers a lot of biting question like -why India,with a strong population of 1 billion+ people cant produce any champions or rather win any major tournaments. The reason is simple - We do not really care for any sports as such..all that we care about is Entertainment and making money out of it. One would argue that thats how business works....and thats also true because in todays world we care not about Sports as such as it really was years back. I wish the Best for India and for the hundreds of unheraled heroes about whome ninety percent of the Indian population has never heard.
I guess the Media can play a very crucial role in this if they take it up as a responsibility.
---- Ranked 33rd in the world, the 23-year-old partnered another Chinese Yan Zi to crown at six tournaments this year including the Australian Open and Wimbledon, becoming the first Chinese Grand Slam champions in tennis history.
Having failed to win any of the seven tennis titles at the 14th Asian Games in Busan,South Korea four years ago, China is determined to put the record straight through the women's events.
While Aiko Nakamura from Japan and Indian rising star Sania Mirza will lead the main charge towards the Chinese contingent.
The 23-year-old Japanese, who is ranked fifth in Asia and 58th in the world, posed main threat following Ai Sugiyama's decision of pulling out from Doha.
Sixth-ranked in Asia, Mirza is hoping for a turning point after a disappointing year.
The 67th-ranked woman, who is famous for her nose ring, has had a patchy season. She has only won one Grand Slam singles match in 2006 and has made little impact elsewhere on the Women's Tennis Association Tour.
China\'s Li Na and Zheng Jie, Indian Mirza to lead Asiad women\'s tennis
Nine out of top ten Asian female players are set to star in the 15th Asian Games tennis tournament to be running from December 4 to 14 at Doha, Qatar.
With the regular 2006 WTA season ended up with the November 7- 12 year-end Championships,nine of the top ten Asian female players except Japan\'s Asian number two Ai Sugiyama have confirmed participation in the continental jamboree.
Chinese female number one Li Na, ranked 21st in the world now, has toppled Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama to be the Asian number one. She has notched up many impressive wins over the world top 10 players en route to the best 20th ranking in August this season, including her imperious run to the last eight at Wimbledon this year.
China\'s hopes of claiming the women\'s singles title was further boosted as the top favorite was strengthened by fellow Chinese Zheng Jie, a specialist in doubles event but also among the best singles players in Asia.
Ranked 33rd in the world, the 23-year-old partnered another Chinese Yan Zi to crown at six tournaments this year including the Australian Open and Wimbledon, becoming
