She's pretty solid from the baseline. These are the comments of Sharapova. Sharapova changed her strategy to reduce the strength of Sania to a great length. This is called game by game strategy.
Winning 10 out of 13 games in a row and that too beating world class players is a good achievement.
The adverse comments that you are getting is only because everyone in India wants you to win every match. People love yu and feel as sorry as you whenever you looseca match
Well, she is a good player considering the fact that tennis is an individual but a global sport, unlikely cricket where you a world virtually playing good 8-9 teams, the others are just additions. If cricket is picked up by other countries, our fate will be same as it is now in Hockey.
Sania should do less talking and improve more on court and like the indian mentally, beating Pakistan in cricket is more worth than winning a cricket world cup.
In the last 14 matches Sania has played, she has 10. Almost every day in the last 2 weeks, she had been playing. That shows her commitment and will power. She has a handful of players, who are ranked above her in the process.
It is good that people starting talking 'against Sania and her ability'. Sachin is very popular...thats why negative minded readers criticise him more vigorously. Now, Sania's ability is likened to that of Sachin. Both these greats should march ahead without being bothered about this small minded critics.
RE:Sania Mania
by Aftab on Aug 04, 2007 09:52 AM Permalink
Yeh Ad market ki strategy hai. Sachin is like old Gabbar of Sholey and not more than that.Every time he gets out he does a natak.
RE:Sania Mania
by gautham kulamarva on Aug 04, 2007 09:48 AM Permalink
I can't see how Sania Mirza can be called a "great" person when she almost never wins a title. Forget about the grandslams, she is only good enough for round one or two.
Part of her failure, I think, is because of the media hype and unrealistic expectations placed on her.
Come on. She is only a modest player ranked somewhere in the thirty's in the world ranking. May be she is the best India has produced, but definitely is not world class yet.
RE:Sania Mania
by Manian Vasudevan on Aug 04, 2007 09:42 AM Permalink
Sorry. I mean, she has WON 10. Sorry for missing the word 'WON' in my earlier message.
All this Sania-mania is just hype. Her actual calibre - or the lack of it - is regularly exposed by the top guns in tennis; the crushing rout by Sharapova is just the latest confirmation, if any were needed. She has been heroine-worshipped and portrayed by the 'secular' Indian media - who else - as some sort of superstar, for the sole reason that she belongs to the politically 'right' community. Know what I mean? She is by no means international stuff, as the only tournament she has won is a Hyderabad Open - ha! Besdies, she's already raked in a few millions, from modelling and endorsements, mainly. You are going to see her in a different avatar in a couple of years, maybe lecturing everyone from an India Today Conclave podium or from some management B-school, delivering (paid, and ghost-written, of course)sermons on 'achievement' and 'performance.' This is India, yaar, and this is the demented Indian media. Jaganniwas Iyer
RE:The Sania hype
by NBhavsar on Aug 04, 2007 09:48 AM Permalink
So you are challenging the tennis ranking. Till yesterday, when she was winning messages of wishing and praising her were pondering and suddenly today you ppl are scolding her.
Do you really think that she is hype? What about her beating better ranked players?
What do you say about the fact that no other indian has reached this level?
She has given India a new idol. She is the role model for entire generation.
RE:RE:The Sania hype
by rajarshi banerjee on Aug 04, 2007 09:49 AM Permalink
I totally second your thoughts Iyer, We in India are so used to failures in all depts of sports that anyone clearing a couple of rounds or winning some games, we place them on a high pedestal be it cricket,tennis,hockey,badminton, football whatever. And as u have rightly pointed out she belongs to the politically CORRECT community, whom our present day govt seems hell bent on licking their feet and appeasement. The pseudo secular Indian media, especially CNN-IBN of late has been treating members of this community as if they have been the most deprived,peace loving and tolerant species on this planet. Haneef's flight from Brisbane to Bangalore was covered as if he was the first Indian to land on the moon or a nobel prize winner. The only thing they could not cover was how many times he visited the loo in the flight and what undergarments he was wearing. No wonder Rajdeep Sardesai's channel have won all the awards from the present govt's kitty for every section of news coverage. REALLY, the Indian media could not have been more biased than this.........
RE:The Sania hype
by Jaganniwas Iyer on Aug 04, 2007 01:25 PM Permalink
Dear Rajarshi, Thanks indeed for your morale-boosting reply. Yes, you have hit the nail on the head in your analysis of the way this present regime, not to speak of its demented boot-lickers in the media, these Rajdeep Sardesais and others, licking the feet of this politically correct community. In fact, I'm surprised that Haneef has not been listed for next year's Bharat Ratna. Maybe we we'll see him at the next India Today Conclave, delivering lectures on - of course, what else - secularism! Our pseudo-secular establishment will regularly insult and harass genuine acheivers if they happen to be from our community, but shamelesly bend over backwards to appease these uotright anti-national elements for the sake of clinging on to their fast-rotting seats for a few days more. Yours Jaganniwas Iyer
RE:RE:RE:The Sania hype
by rajarshi banerjee on Aug 04, 2007 09:51 AM Permalink
How much do u know about the game Mr. Manoj Kumar and how many tournaments have you represented India in Tennis??
RE:The Sania hype
by manoj kumar on Aug 04, 2007 09:59 AM Permalink
Hello Mr. Banerjee...
I am playing tennis from the last five years and have been watching tennis from almost 13 years.. I know how difficult it is to perform at an international stage...!
Lets see this.. Sania has realized her weaknesses and started improving on those things.. And if you follow the sport closely, you would understand that she is playing quite consistently from the last few weeks and it is really commendable performance form her considering that she just came back from injury..!
She is truly world top 20 player. It takes time to beat top 10 players consistently..
Please follow the comments of sharapova who defeated sania today...!
Please dont rush to pass negative comments on her quickly..!
RE:The Sania hype
by Prasath K on Aug 04, 2007 09:47 AM Permalink
Manoj Kumar,are you Bharat waala Manoj Kumar?You seem to be talking like him.hehehehe.
RE:RE:RE:The Sania hype
by Jaganniwas Iyer on Aug 04, 2007 01:39 PM Permalink
Dear Manoj Kumar Saheb, I'm no expert on tennis, or any sport for that matter. A few facts about Sania Mirza won't hurt; I'm sure. 1) Sania Mirza isn't even among the top 50 in global tennis. She was within the 50 for a few months, but lost her ranking. Only when one is among the top 20 is he/she counted as a serious contender. 2) She's won no other tournament other than a Hyderabad Open. Apni galli mein billi bhi sherni hoti hai, lekin us-say kya? 3)All her other international appereances have been just that - mere appearances, not going beyond the second, or at most, the third round. The problem is the brainwashed Indian media, which splashes photos of each appearance of hers as if it is a Grand Slam-winning performance. Well friend, "truth because I assert repeatedly" is an old and tired mantra of this country's media. 4) She was in the news recently as she'd asked the Andhra state government for a few acres of prime land to start a tennis academy to impart "training to talent youngters." Oh really? Has she already become Steffi Graf or Martina Navratilova that her experience and training is the only thing that is going to unerat budding talent? Come on, don't make me laugh. I bet that this was only a ruse to grab some prime real estate in Hyderabad. The state government, naturally, wasn't amused at Sania's request. 5) Wait for the Sania bubble to pop. By then the media would've latched on to another blue-eyed boy/girl. Jaganniwas Iyer
RE:The Sania hype
by rajarshi banerjee on Aug 04, 2007 03:21 PM Permalink
Excellent reply, Mr. Iyer, while I do not follow tennis closely, I certainly know, Sania had her golden run only in the first year, when she was a surprise element for all her opponents. Thats the case with most Indian sportsmen. Look at Sehwag, where he is today, all his opponents have sorted out what his weaknesses are. Same is the case with Sania, she is now winning some losing some but not reached any finals of any major tournaments save the last one. The blue eyed girl of Indian media needs to improvise constantly to be in the running otherwise it will be downhill all along for her. I am not against Sania, per se, Mr. Manoj Kumar, its just that as per Indian standards she has achieved something big when a land of 110 crores could not produce a second Sania is justifie, but that certainly does not mean she is in reckoning with the world. She has a long long way to go before she can think of competing with players at Grand Slam level.
Sania requires one more life to beat sharapova...Sania has got more fame than actual play. She has already earned crores with that fame.Now just she need to qualify in first or second rounds and come back such that people don't forget her.
RE:prasana
by on Aug 04, 2007 09:36 AM Permalink
she has earned crores with her hard work....be thankful to her that atleast she is carrying the name of the nation to the world...best wishes for her.
RE:prasana
by swamy on Aug 04, 2007 09:49 AM Permalink
she has earned crores thanks to her figure. If you deny this, you are too naive to converse with.
RE:When she will win a tournament again?
by Jo on Aug 04, 2007 09:31 AM Permalink
she will never. she is not match winner. sachin and sania both are selfish, they will never win games for india, when it is needed the most :P :D
RE:When she will win a tournament again?
by LAwrence Jacob on Aug 04, 2007 09:37 AM Permalink
MY DEAR FRIEND U R TALKING LIKE IT IS EASY TO WIN A FINAL.jUST PLAY THE GAME AND SEE HOW TOUGH IT IS.WE ARE CRORES in population ATLEAST SHE IS he only one going upto semifinals.Learn to appreciate first rather than criticising without any idea.Give her support and encouragemnment
RE:When she will win a tournament again?
by Jo on Aug 04, 2007 09:58 AM Permalink
I agree that its difficult to win a final, but she didnt even reached semifinal. forget about that, we at least wanted a decent fight 6-1,6-2 is like sachin getting out for less than 10 in quarter final
RE:When she will win a tournament again?
by Manoj Joshi. on Aug 04, 2007 09:27 AM Permalink
never. but, she is a great player who at least knows to fight till the end unlike many other indian players especially the cricketrs.
