Sania Mirza who is her country’s topmost women’s tennis player, has won six Grand Slam doubles titles and would play her final major this month at the Australian Open, where she bagged the women’s doubles crown in 2016.
“ I was going to stop right after the WTA Tests but I tore my tendon in my elbow right before US Open, so I had to pull out of everything, ” Mirza told the WTA Tour’s website in an interview.
Mirza, who has been dealing with a moping shin injury, had planned to retire at the end of the 2022 season but an elbow injury in August ruled her out of the US Open.
“ Actually I am kind a person who does things on my own terms. So I do not want to force myself to go furthur.That is why i ’ve been thinking about this for so long” she added.
The tennis star said in the interview, “ I am 36 and my body is now giving up, that’s the main reason for it.
I really do not have the capacity in my mind to emotionally push that much presently. ”
She turned pro in 2003. Priority changes and now my priority is my health and fitness so I have decided to not push my body to the limit every single day. ”
Mirza will compete alongside Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina at the Australian Open, which begins on Jan 16,before bidding farewell to the sport in the United Arab Emirates,where she has resided for more than a decade with her husband, former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik.
