Sania Mirza declared that the WTA 1000 competition in Dubai in February would be her last match. In an interview with the WTA website, the Indian tennis legend made these comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan is to try and retire in Dubai during the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships,\u201d<\/strong> she told wtatennis.com.<\/p>\n The six-time doubles Major champion Mirza will retire at the age of 36, which also means that the Australian Open this month will be his final Grand Slam. Anna Danilina of Kazakhstan will be the Indian\u2019s partner in her final Grand Slam, her father Imran Mirza has already announced. Mirza previously withdrew from the US Open due to an elbow injury.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, the person that I am, I like to do things on my own terms. So I don\u2019t want to be forced out by injury. So I have been training,\u201d she told wtatennis.com.<\/p>\n \u201cI really don\u2019t have the capacity in my mind to emotionally push that much anymore. I turned pro in 2003. Priorities change, and now my priority is not to push my body to the limit every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor me it\u2019s important to share my experience in the places that I live in, that\u2019s why I have one in Hyderabad and one in Dubai,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re trying to spread and bring tennis to people\u2019s homes, and that\u2019s really the plan,\u201d said Mirza, who peaked at No.27 in the world in singles.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like why don\u2019t we have players coming out of the UAE when you have money, you have infrastructure, you have everything, but you don\u2019t have the players?\u201d Mirza said. \u201cThere\u2019s a problem somewhere so we\u2019ve got to tap on the problem, whatever it may be, and try to be part of a solution.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me it\u2019s important to share my experience in the places that I live in, that\u2019s why I have one in Hyderabad [since 2013] and one in Dubai.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sania Mirza declared that the WTA 1000 competition in Dubai in February would be her last match. In an interview\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":38610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,2046,202],"class_list":["post-17868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-retirement","tag-sania-mirza","tag-tennis"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}