Sania Mirza is the current 'Youth Icon' in India. She is an Indian tennis player, who started her career in 2003. A year after her entrance, she was awarded with the 'Arjuna Award'. Sania was born in Mumbai and bought up in Hyderabad in a religious Muslim family. Sania has been blessed with a tall, strong frame, gorgeous long hair and deep brown eyes. Her father, Imran Mirza, was a sports journalist, and her mother is Nasima. Sania Mirza may not have come into this world with a tennis racket in her hand, but it didn't take long for the tennis phenom to pick one up, as she started playing tennis from the age of six. She did her schooling form Nasr School in Hyderabad and later did graduation from St. Mary's College. Sania first came to the limelight when she became the representative of India at the World Junior Championship held in 1999 at Jakarta in Indonesia, but her career truly began in 2003. In April 2003 she made her debut with India Fed Cup team and win all three singles. Mir

Sania Mirza is the current 'Youth Icon' in India. She is an Indian tennis player, who started her career in 2003. A year after her entrance, she was awarded with the 'Arjuna Award'. Sania was born in Mumbai and bought up in Hyderabad in a religious Muslim family. Sania has been blessed with a tall, strong frame, gorgeous long hair and deep brown eyes. Her father, Imran Mirza, was a sports journalist, and her mother is Nasima. Sania Mirza may not have come into this world with a tennis racket in her hand, but it didn't take long for the tennis phenom to pick one up, as she started playing tennis from the age of six. She did her schooling form Nasr School in Hyderabad and later did graduation from St. Mary's College. Sania first came to the limelight when she became the representative of India at the World Junior Championship held in 1999 at Jakarta in Indonesia, but her career truly began in 2003. In April 2003 she made her debut with India Fed Cup team and win all three singles. Mirza is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 18 in doubles. Coming from Hyderabad, this girl is creating history in Indian tennis by becoming the first ever Indian to break into the top-50 WTA rankings. At the budding stage of her career, Sania Mirza was offered financial aid by the Chairman of the GVK group. Overwhelmed by the girl’s immense talent, the Chairman offered her sponsorship. It goes like, she received sponsorship which amount to around 0.35 million U.S. dollars per brand per year. Apart from tennis, Sania likes swimming and music. As a sports-person, she is highly popular among the youth of India and has a huge fan following. Her favorite player is the renowned tennis sensation Steffi Graf. Sania’s ambition is to be among the top 20 tennis players of the world, quite fitting for a player who is such a storehouse of talent