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Sania Mirza-Shuai Zhang win Ostrava Open women’s doubles title

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Sania Mirza won her first title of the season as she and her Chinese partner Shuai Zhang (Source: Sania Mirza / Twitter)

Sania Mirza won her first title of the season as she and her Chinese partner Shuai Zhang beat the pair of Kaitlyn Christian and Erin Routliffe in the women’s doubles final of the Ostrava Open on Sunday.

The second seeded Indo-Chinese duo defeated the third seeded pair of American Christian and New Zealander Routliffe 6-3 6-2 in the summit clash in one hour and four minutes.

The 34-year-old Sania and Zhang had defeated the Japanese pair 6-2 7-5 in the semifinals of the WTA 500 event.

It was Sania’s second final of the season, following a runner-up finish at the WTA 250 Cleveland event in the USA last month with Chirstina Mchale.

source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Sports> Tennis / by PTI / September 27th, 2021

Sania Mirza: All You Need To Know About India’s Tennis Superstar

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  • Sania is an aggressive player with one of the biggest forehands in the game
  • The stupendous success of tennis duo Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis in 2015 has helped them attain the title of 2015 Women’s Doubles World Champions
  • Sania was born in Mumbai but has lived in Hyderabad for much of her life

Sania Mirza is a path-breaking athlete who almost single-handedly put Indian women’s tennis on the global map. She is the first and so far the only Indian female player to have won a Grand Slam title in any format, and is also the only player to have broken into the top 30 of the WTA singles rankings. Sania’s doubles partnership with Martina Hingis is widely celebrated for its style and success. In 2015 and 2016, Sania and Hingis were the best doubles players on the planet, winning three Slams and two WTA Finals titles. Today, Sania is a sporting and socio-cultural icon in India, whose stature rivals that of the top cricketers in the country.

Sania Mirza Early Life

Sania is an aggressive player with one of the biggest forehands in the game. She can dictate any rally by powering her forehand into the corners and is capable of hitting winners off that wing even from defensive positions. Sania’s forehand was one of the main reasons why she could challenge the top players in singles at the start of her career. While she had a few weaknesses in her game, her forehand was so unique that it regularly featured in the ‘best forehands in the game’ lists. Sania’s backhand is fairly efficient, but her serve is attackable and inconsistent. Her movement is not the greatest either, which hampers her during long rallies and long matches. Sania started out as an aggressive baseliner but started approaching the net a lot more as her focus shifted to doubles. Her volleys have improved over time, and during her partnership with Hingis, she occasionally matched the Swiss’ finesse at the net.

Sania Mirza’s Personal Life

Sania was born in Mumbai but has lived in Hyderabad for much of her life. She started playing tennis at the age of six, and her father Imran Mirza has been her primary coach ever since. Sania married Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik in April 2010. In April 2018, the couple announced that they were pregnant with their first child, which put Sania’s tennis career on hold. Sania’s popularity with the Indian masses has earned her a number of endorsement deals, and she has also taken up modelling on some occasions.

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The stupendous success of tennis duo Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis in 2015 has helped them attain the title of 2015 Women’s Doubles World Champions. Conferred upon the two tennis stars by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), this title has brought the two women, tennis players, closer to each other. Quite contented with the award received from the ITF, Sania Mirza seeks to become an inspiration to all female tennis aspirants in India. Both, Sania and Martina have played together to win their last 22 matches, beginning from the US Open to wins recorded in Asia at Wuhan, Guangzhou, Beijing and finally the WTA Finals.

source: http://www.republicworld.com / Republic TV / Home> Sports News> Tennis News / by Asmita Shukla /  Mumbai – September 18th, 2019

Athiya Shetty and Sania Mirza come together for a special initiative for Save The Children

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Actress Athiya Shetty and Tennis star Sania Mirza are coming together for a special initiative. When two forces join hands, this initiative of Araaish X The Label Bazaar will be able to curate fashion for a greater purpose. Araaish has been the fundraising arm of Save The Children India and by collaborating with The Label Bazaar we will find solid support & reach out to a diverse audience, whereby creating a greater awareness for Save The Children India.

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Speaking about the cause and spreading awareness, Athiya Shetty says, “The proceeds are used to support the vocational training of adolescent girls and young women from the slum communities and education of special children coming from impoverished families have no access to education. We use the platform of Araaish X The Label Bazaar to speak about our cause through our creative’s, social media campaigns and also on-day show collaterals to let all our supporters know that they are the real change-makers.”

Athiya Shetty shot for a campaign with Sania Mirza. The actress revealed how forthcoming Sania was towards this cause. “Sania was extremely forthcoming. She’s not only a fantastic sportsperson but a fantastic human being as well! Not only was she was very excited to be a part of this initiative, but she was also hands-on while shooting with the special children of Save The Children India. Sania is very committed to the cause of education and through this collaboration, she will walk the talk to make this show a significant fund-raiser,” she adds.

Athiya Shetty further adds, “Save the Children India is very close to my heart and was founded by my Nani 30 years ago. This is my way of Contributing and keeping her passion alive through this Collaboration, we aim to be India’s Finest luxury lifestyle exhibition with nearly 11 years of experience, over 2,50,000 shoppers, associating with over 500 brands. This collaboration will cherry-pick designers from the fashion world. Given the fact that it will be attended by a larger audience, we will be able to make a difference for the beneficiaries of Save The Children India.”

On the work front, Athiya Shetty will be next seen in Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer Motichoor Chaknachoor.

source: http://www.bollywoodhungama.com / Bollywood Hungama / Home / by The Bollywood Hungama News Network / February 09th, 2019

Sania Mirza to shape up tennis kids

Hyderabad, TELANGANA :

Starts academy for players between ages three and eight.

Sania Mirza poses with kids at the newly-opened Grassroot Level wing of the Sania Mirza Tennis Academy next to her house in Jubilee Hills on Monday (Photo: R. Pavan)
Sania Mirza poses with kids at the newly-opened Grassroot Level wing of the Sania Mirza Tennis Academy next to her house in Jubilee Hills on Monday (Photo: R. Pavan)

Hyderabad:

Tennis ace Sania Mirza on Monday launched the Sania Mirza Tennis Academy’s Grassroot Level wing for players between the ages of three and eight, next to her home in Jubilee Hills here.

The idea was to introduce budding players to tennis, she said. “As a tennis player I’ve had lot of difficulties coming to know what to do and where to go as a child and knowing how much to practise,” Sania said.

“It is actually my mother and her friend’s idea and obviously the Mirza family supports it. Tennis today is too competitive and you have to start when you are three or four years old,” Sania explained. “The professionals, the biggest of champions, have always started at the ages of 4, 5 and 6,” she added.

“We are still waiting for the next Sania, the next Mahesh (Bhupathi) and Leanders (Paes) to come and this is just a small way of contributing to it,” she said adding “It is right next to my house and I will obviously give some time as well.

“The concept is to get as many kids as possible to the academy where we are going to play with soft, colourful balls to make it attractive and easier for them,” Sania said, adding, “At that age, I don’t think they’d understand the concept of forehand or backhand. It is more about fun, enjoyment. You have to get them to try and love the game first before they want to actually make it their profession.”

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Sports> Tennis / February 07th, 2017

Sania-Dodig end runner-up

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Melbourne, Australia :

Spears-Cabal win mixed doubles title with 6-2 6-4 victory

Sania Mirza will have to wait for her seventh Grand Slam trophy as the Indian and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig lost the Australian Open mixed doubles final 2-6 4-6 to underdogs Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal, here on Sunday.

The second-seeded Indo-Croatian pair paid the price for the free-flowing unforced errors from the racquet of Dodig, who struggled with his serve and ground strokes.

It is the second runners-up finish for Sania and Dodig together after losing the final of the 2016 French Open to Leander Paes and Martina Hingis.

Not his day

After losing the first two points, Dodig served a double fault at 30-30 and then sent a forehand long to concede a break in the very first game of the match.

Cabal and Spears though were in tremendous touch from the word go. Both were terrific from the back and at the net to comfortably pocket the first set.

Despite racing to a 3-0 lead in the second set, the Indo-Croat pair let their advantage slip and were locked in battle at 4-4. Dodig was never in his elements in the match and he served two double faults, the second one coming on a breakpoint, to allow Cabal to serve out the championship. PTI

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Tennis / PTI / Melbourne, Australia – January 30th, 2017

Sania Mirza’s Unlikely Stardom

Hyderabad, TELANGANA :

A tennis player blazes a trail for Indian women.

“For a girl to pick up a tennis racquet and to want to be a professional—it was unheard of,” Sania Mirza says. “People thought it was a joke.” PHOTOGRAPH BY GREG WOOD / AFP / Getty
“For a girl to pick up a tennis racquet and to want to be a professional—it was unheard of,” Sania Mirza says. “People thought it was a joke.”
PHOTOGRAPH BY GREG WOOD / AFP / Getty

On the last day of August, Sania Mirza, currently the No. 1 women’s doubles player in the world, was on one of the smaller side courts at the U.S. Open grounds, in Flushing Meadows, about to play her first match in this year’s tournament. She and her partner, Barbora Strýcová, of the Czech Republic, were squaring off against the Americans Jada Myii Hart and Ena Shibahara. The sun had begun to sneak behind the bleachers, where a few dozen fans had settled in. Occasionally, a roar from Arthur Ashe Stadium or the grandstands could be heard over their polite clapping. Mirza’s black hair was tied back in its usual businesslike bun, her dark eyes focussed beneath a neon-pink headband. Mirza’s gruelling summer had included her third Olympics, which had ended just a couple of weeks before, with a fourth-place finish in mixed doubles. Her longtime partnership with the tennis icon Martina Hingis was also coming to an end. Now she was gearing up again, knowing that millions were paying attention in her native India, even if only a handful were watching in New York.

Mirza, who will be thirty in November, is wildly famous in one hemisphere and virtually unknown in the other. She has nearly twelve million Facebook fans – more than double the number that Serena Williams has—plus four million followers on Twitter, and two million more on Instagram.  She is, without hyperbole, one of the most popular athletes on Earth. She has, to date, earned $ 6.3 million in career prize money, a fraction of what Williams has made, but more than a thousand times the annual per-capita income in her home country.

She is also Muslim, and has sparked the ire of clerics for competing in tennis clothes that leave her arms and legs exposed. Though roughly one in twelve people on the planet is a woman from India, few Indian women have succeeded in professional sports, for reasons that are not hard to pinpoint. Last year, in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, India ranked No.108, out of a hundred and forty-five countries listed. For years, women in India were largely discouraged from participating in high-level sports—and, unless the women were wealthy, good facilities were hard to come by, anyway.

Mirza is helping to change this. She’s an advocate for women’s rights, and has spoken up about ending the practice of female feticide in India. She has criticized government policies on domestic violence and sexual assault, as well as lopsided pay schemes, including in sports. She was the first South Asian woman to be appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, and she often calls out reporters for asking her, and not her male counterparts, about her “family plans.” She told me that, after she and Hingis won Wimbledon last year, she was asked by a reporter when she’d be having a child. “I was, like, ‘I won Wimbledon two days ago!’ ”

Though Mirza makes light of her reputation, in India, for what some there see as arrogance, the truth is that her outspokenness has only made her more popular back home. Her stardom is an unlikely outcome, considering where she started. “For a girl to pick up a tennis racquet and to want to be a professional—it was unheard of,” she told me. “People thought it was a joke.”

Mirza grew up in Hyderabad, a city of nearly seven million. It was only half that size when she was a child, and, back then, sanitation, let alone access to a tennis court, was not a given—only a handful of courts existed, and many that did were riddled with potholes or made with cow dung (a surface that was thought to offer a middle ground between clay and hard courts). Today, as Mirza is well aware, the city center of Old Hyderabad is a hub for human trafficking, and domestic violence is an urgent problem. Though technically illegal, child marriage persists. Local police blotters in and around Hyderabad regularly carry gruesome stories: a woman who hanged herself by her sari when a dowry went sour, a husband setting his wife on fire. Just a few weeks after last year’s U.S. Open came news, from south of Hyderabad, in Bengaluru, that a woman had been raped by two security guards outside of tennis courts in Cubbon Parks. It was the third such attack in the city in a month. According to local reports, the victim later told police, “I want to be like Sania Mirza.”

The Mirzas moved to Hyderabad, from Mumbai, when Sania was an infant, one of many families drawn to the burgeoning technology mecca. Mirza’s father, Imran, held a number of jobs, working mostly as a printer and, later, in construction. Mirza’s mother, Naseema, also had a mind for business, and she and her husband often worked together. They were ambitious, and forward-thinking in their attitude toward girls; still, they tried to avoid placing too much stress on their daughters. (Sania’s sister Anam is seven years younger.) It was on a whim that Imran signed up Sania, then six years old, for tennis lessons, at Hyderabad’s Nizam Club. There were cricketers in the Mirza family, but women’s cricket had not yet taken off in India. Tennis seemed like something she might enjoy.

A couple of months later, Sania’s coach suggested that Imran come to watch his daughter play. He put it off. When he finally saw her on the court, he immediately realized that she was a standout talent. Soon, the sport became as much a part of her childhood routine as brushing her teeth or doing her homework. Sania attended the Nasr School, a progressive all-girls private school, which adapted her academic schedule to accommodate her tennis travels. “Always in tracksuits, coming directly from practice straight to school!” Nirmal Gandhi, a teacher at Nasr who had Mirza as a student, said. “I don’t think I ever saw her serious. She was always laughing with her friends.” At the time, the Indian system for youth tennis was, Imran said, “nonexistent.” It’s not unheard of for the parents of tennis players to spend fifty thousand to a hundred thousand dollars, or more, annually on coaching, travel, and equipment, an expense that was far beyond the Mirza household budget at the time. So Imran began to coach his daughter, and set about researching local tournaments, learning what he could through word of mouth and follow-up phone calls. Sania’s mother stayed at home “to hold down the ranch,” tending to Mirza’s little sister and various pieces of family business, a pattern that would continue for twenty years—Sania’s tennis career becoming another joint family venture.

Mirza eventually won a berth in the 2003 Wimbledon junior girls’ competition, as a doubles player with Russia’s Alisa Kleybanova. They won the tournament. When Mirza stepped off the plane back in India, a mob of people greeted her and her family at the airport, fanfare that surprised them. Government dignitaries took photos with her and bestowed her with awards. The Indian press began to cover her every move, and it hasn’t stopped since. “At fifteen or sixteen, you’re still trying to get in touch with yourself as a person, as a teenager,” Sania Mirza said. “You have pimples. You have baby fat, in front of millions of people. You have to kind of grow up in front of the media, and you’re growing older and the following is getting larger and larger. You’re still getting in touch with who you are.”

“The Indian media, too, was just growing up,” Imran said. “They grew up along with Sania. They were really not geared or didn’t know how to handle a female sporting icon. They might have handled a film star, but here was the first sporting woman from India. It wasn’t easy for her, but it probably wasn’t easy for the media to deal with, either.” In 2005, as she was competing on the international circuit, a group of clerics issued a fatwa against Mirza, calling her skirts and T-shirts “un-Islamic” and “corrupting.” The cleric Haseeb-ul-hasan Siddiqui told the Guardian that the clothing she wore on court “ leaves nothing to the imagination .”

“You get hate mail,” Mirza told me. “You get love mail, but hate is a lot harder to digest than love. That’s the way it is.” She continued to wear Western-style pants and heels, and slogan-bearing T-shirts, including a popular one that declared, “Well-behaved women rarely make history.” The increased attention, and Mirza’s handling of it, gained her even more Muslim fans, a broad demographic that had largely been overlooked by the tennis-marketing establishment. And she excelled on the court. As a professional singles player, she reached a ranking of twenty-seven, the highest spot achieved by an Indian woman.

Privately, though, Mirza was battling a series of injuries. The hypermobile joints that helped give her flexibility on the court also led to extreme pain, which she often hid. She underwent operations on both knees and a wrist. Upon examining her body and her demanding competition schedule in 2010, doctors gave her the devastating news: she was done playing singles.

Mirza had been engaged to a longtime family friend, but in January of that year it was reported that she had called off the engagement. Then, in April, she became engaged to the Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, whom she had met through mutual friends and had seen occasionally thereafter on various sports-related travels. The new wedding plans were a major story in India: Malik had served for two years as a captain of the Pakistani national cricket team, and cricket is something of a religion in that part of the world. Ordinarily, this would have made Mirza and Malik the Beyoncé and Jay Z of South Asian sports—but marriage to a Pakistani, even one who is an élite athlete in a treasured national pastime, is still “a huge taboo” in India, according to Bappa Majumdar, the Hyderabad bureau chief for the Times of India, who has covered Mirza. “It showed huge guts on her part,” Majumdar said.

The couple had planned an Islamic wedding ceremony in Hyderabad, with another ceremony to follow in Pakistan, adhering to that country’s customs. Within hours of the announcement, dozens of journalists had camped out in front of the Mirza home, to cover the tale of the star-crossed lover-athletes. The story then took an additional soap-opera turn: a woman from Mirza’s home town went to the press, saying that she was already married to Malik, and had been since 2002. He initially disputed this; they had merely met online and exchanged photographs—though, he said, the pictures she sent him were of someone else. But he ultimately admitted to the marriage and got a quick divorce, according to local news reports, days before his wedding to Mirza.

Mirza at her second wedding to the Pakistani cricket star Shoaib Malik, in his home country. His nationality drew criticisim of Mirza in India./ PHOTOGRAPH BY FAISAL MAHMOOD / REUTERS
Mirza at her second wedding to the Pakistani cricket star Shoaib Malik, in his home country. His nationality drew criticisim of Mirza in India./
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On account of her marriage, some of Mirza’s critics in India have called her the “daughter-in-law of Pakistan.” In an interview with a New Delhi television station, in 2014, she burst into tears, saying she was exhausted by the need to “keep asserting my Indianness.” “I have no problem if they attack me about my tennis or they attack me about what I’m doing,” Mirza told me, adding, “I come from a country of 1.2 billion people, and I’ve accepted the fact that I’m not going to be liked by all of them.” Her family, in any case, approved of the union, Imran said. “She wasn’t getting married to a country but a person.”

Mirza and her father spend much of the year on the road, but when they’re not travelling they can often be found at the Sania Mirza Tennis Academy, a set of nine hard courts nestled among farmland and jungle, with a sweeping view of Hyderabad. The family bought the plot of land four years ago, with the goal of making it a hub for tennis in India. Some hundred children are now enrolled in the academy, almost all of them having heard about it by word of mouth. Some are the children of Hyderabad’s rising middle and upper-middle classes, but others have never seen a tennis court prior to joining, and rely on scholarships, which are offered according to financial need. Backing from sponsors was not forthcoming when the academy opened, in March of 2013, so the program was jump-started with funding from the Mirza Family Trust.

Here Mirza can practice in relative seclusion. She and her father also talk to parents about the nuances of a good backhand, what competition is like internationally, and the grit required to make it as a professional. Some aspiring players have shown up at the academy’s gates on rickshaw, their parents willing to relocate some or all of the family to Hyderabad or nearby villages solely in pursuit of tennis. “They thought Sania was an overnight success, and they want results in six months,” Imran told me when I visited the academy last year. “And I keep telling them it takes ten years to find out whether they even have a chance. It cannot be done for the money or the fame. It has to be done for the passion.”

When I spoke with Mirza in Flushing, a year later, she said it had been two months since she’d been home to India. She and Strýcová won their first match at the U.S. Open, convincingly, 6–3, 6–2, and she noted afterward that the dynamic she shares with Strýcová on the court is not dissimilar from her partnership with Hingis: Mirza is strong and powerful, sweeping the back of the court, while Strýcová is nimble and poppy at the net. The two have known each other since they were teen-agers on the junior circuit, which has helped with the transition. But earlier this week they were knocked out of the Open by Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic, the tournament’s top seeds. (Garcia is ranked No. 3 in the world in women’s doubles, and Mladenovic is No. 4. Hingis is No. 2.)

Mirza published an autobiography in India this summer. She said she doesn’t know how long she’ll play, or what the future holds for Indian women, but she pointed to India’s victories at the Rio Games as a sign of progress. The Indian Olympic Committee, which had been banned, was reinstated in 2014, and the country sent its largest-ever delegation, a hundred and seventeen athletes. They won two medals: a silver in badminton, for Pusarla Venkata Sindhu, and a bronze in wrestling, for Sakshi Malik. “It was amazing,” Mirza said. “And it was the women who won!”

Mary Pilon is the author of “ The Monopolists,” a book about the board game Monopoly. She previously worked as a staff reporter at the Times and the Wall Street Journal, where she wrote about sports and business.

source:  http://www.newyorker.com / The New Yorker / Home> Sections> The Sporting Scene / by Mary Pilon / September 10th, 2016

A rewind of Sania-Hingis partnership

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It is official. India’s six-time Grand Slam winner Sania Mirza has decided to part ways with Swiss great Martina Hingis. The World No. 1 duo has won 3 Grand Slams and 14 WTA titles together since they paired up in 2015.

End of an excellent partnership

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Sania Mirza to part ways with Martina Hingis

The World No. 1 duo has won 3 Grand Slams and 14 WTA titles together since they paired up in 2015.

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World record by Sania-Martina as they win 29th match on trot

They now surpassed the pair of Puerto Rican Gigi Fernandez and Belarus’ Natasha Zvereva, who won 28 matches on the trot.

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Sania-Hingis extend unbeaten streak to 41 matches

Sania and Hingis have together won four titles this year out of an overall trophy count of 13.

Sania-Hingis 41-match winning streak comes to a halt

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis’ 41-match winning streak came to halt as they down fighting in the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open.

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source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Specials / by N. Kesavan / August 10th, 2016

Cancer Crusaders to Hold World-class Golf Tournament on February 15,16

Cancer Crusaders of CURE Foundation here are organising a world-class golf tournament on February 15 and 16. The event titled ‘Cancer Crusaders Invitation Cup-2014’, the third biennial edition, fund raiser and awareness initiative, will take place at Hyderabad Golf Club. This was announced by Tennis ace Sania Mirza on Sunday, who believed that a gentle stroke to hit a golf ball so that it rolls down into the hole across the green could make some difference to a few cancer patients.

Tennis star Sania Mirza tries her hand at Golf at the launch of the Cancer Crusade Invitation Cup in Hyderabad on Sunday | Neeraj Murali
Tennis star Sania Mirza tries her hand at Golf at the launch of the Cancer Crusade Invitation Cup in Hyderabad on Sunday | Neeraj Murali

Participants have to pay Rs 2,000 which goes towards charity. Around 200 golfers will participate in the tournament. According to Dr Vijay Anand Reddy, founder-CURE foundation and director, Apollo Cancer hospital, the event intends to raise money and spread cancer awareness through excessive participation from ace golfers, outstanding sports persons, celebrities and opinion leaders. ‘’Our objective is to create a consistent annual charity golf tournament, fun and fulfilling day of social service,” he said.

Celebrity Golf Playoffs: The celebrity golf playoff, to be hosted on February 16, is a custom designed format that will last about one hour and is designed to entertain and give celebrities an opportunity to take a shot at the game. Fashion designer Asmita Marwa, Classical dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant, entrepreneur Pinky Reddy, badminton ace Saina Nehwal, Kuchipudi dancer Deepika Reddy, Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj and badminton star Jwala Gutta are expected to take part.

The tournament format named Stableford will have each player given a ball with her name written on it. Each participant has to put the ball to a designated hole on ‘putting greens’. All have to reach close to the hole. The last one is eliminated in each round. There will be different holes for different rounds and the distance to the hole is increased for each round to make it difficult for players.

Asadullah Pasha, captain, Hyderabad Gold Association; Bathanie Mattek, Tennis player; Venu Vinod, MD, Cybercity Builders & Developers pvt ltd; Nadir Chinoy, CEO, Inline 4 Motors Pvt Ltd attended the press meet.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Express News Service – Hyderabad / February 03rd, 2014

Soha Ali Khan at achievers award organised by Assocham Ladies League in Hyderabad

It was an evening to rejoice and celebrate with the winners of Hyderabad Women of the Decade Achievers Awards organised by Assocham Ladies League recently.

Chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy was the chief guest of the evening and was seen mingling with the guests and winners.

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Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan , who graced the do, was given a special award.

Musician-singer Dina Fanai from New York made the evening memorable by crooning beautiful numbers.

Also spotted was tennis ace Sania Mirza , actress Sharada, Sangita Reddy, Geeta Reddy, and Seema Kumar among others.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hyderabad / TNN / February 01st, 2014