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Articles: News | Sania Mirza `quietly' turns 19
- Mr. Ravi Kumar Sunkara
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Hyderabad: Tennis sensation Sania Mirza, who turned 19 Tuesday, spent a quiet birthday at her home with family members.
She cut the cake and received birthday wishes and blessings from her parents Imran Mirza and Naseema, her younger sister Anam and a few other close family members.
The celebrations were literally a closed-door affair and no television cameraman or photojournalist was allowed in to take snaps of the event or even the birthday girl in her posh Jubliee Hills house.
The family, however, hosted a party at a star hotel Tuesday evening for the Indian cricket team, which is here for the first one-dayer against South Africa Wednesday.
Some television cameramen, who went to the hotel, were told by the family that the party was also a strict closed-door affair and they would not entertain journalists.
The phone kept ringing at the Mirzas' house from the morning as fans and well-wishers called to wish her. Sania's father Imran Mirza said Sania preferred to celebrate the occasion with her family.
Sania, who had a phenomenal success in the year gone by in the international tennis arena, received blessings from her parents who have played a key role in her career.
'We offered prayers for her success on the occasion. It has been a very successful year and we pray to God that she continues the same performance in the coming months,' said Imran, who hopes that she would break into top 10 by the end of next year, if she stays fit and luck favours her.
Sania, who is currently ranked 31, is set to begin training next week under elite coach Tony Roche. The two-week stint will focus on improving her serves, a weak area, ahead of the next season.
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