Fighting the Darkness: Hot Indian Professional Tennis Player Sania Mirza | Unseen Photos

On this post, we are turning our spotlight into sports, in our attempt to prove that sportswomen can rival our Bollywood celebrities. We are doing this not only to give our writers a break but also to focus on sports, which is a scorching hot topic to beat the summer heat.

Born on November 15, 1986 is the pretty and talented athlete Sania Mirza (see photo), one of the best professional tennis players ever produced by India. For over a decade - from 2003 to 2013 - she was the highest-ranked player in the country. This year, even after her retirement from the singles competition, she managed to come out as a runner-up in the hard-surfaced 2014 Australian Open, playing with Horia Tecau of Romania.

This charming tennis player (see below) is really an achiever. As a player representing India (aside from her quite impressive professional record), she won four gold medals in the 2003 Hyderabad Afro-Asian Games (singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and team). At the Asian Games, she won one gold (mixed doubles), and two silvers (silver and team) on 2006 in Doha; one silver (mixed doubles) and a bronze (singles) on 2010 in Guangzhou; and a bronze for mixed doubles in Busan in 2002. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, she won a silver and a bronze for singles and women's doubles, respectively.

In case you don't know, the Indian government gave her the Padma Shri - the country's fourth highest honour - in 2006, which makes her more enticing and admirable! Yet, mere mortals like us can only dream for she is already married. But there's always divorce, right? Hahaha.

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