{"id":45400,"date":"2016-12-21T03:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=45400"},"modified":"2016-12-21T03:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:25:06","slug":"sania-mirza-remains-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/sania-mirza-remains-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Sania Mirza remains on the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will be the second consecutive year end when Telangana brand Ambassador Sania Mirza will finish as the no. 1 women\u2019s doubles player and the Hyderbadi tennis ace is happy to remain at the top. The 30-year-old is also conscious of the fact that she can\u2019t be there for eternity and is not taking any extra pressure to stay there for long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt was an unbelievable year for me, to finish at no. 1 again, to win eight tournaments, to win a grand slam, to be in the final of another. I can\u2019t ask for a better year,\u201d Sania said at the sidelines of an event here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45402\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/498659-sania-mirza-us-open-pti.jpg\" alt=\"Sania Mirza remains on the top\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/498659-sania-mirza-us-open-pti.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/498659-sania-mirza-us-open-pti-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sania wants to add another Grand Slam next year and will look to complete the career slam in the women\u2019s doubles by winning the elusive French Open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf that does happen (winning French open) that would be amazing, I won\u2019t kill myself. And it\u2019s the Wimbledon mixed doubles that I am missing, but I would love to win any Grand Slam. It would be amazing for me to have three back-to-back years with at-least one slam. So that would be my goal really and everything else follows,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI had to work harder this year than last year because everybody is gunning for you in every tournament you go to. Every time you lose in the finals it is treated as if you have not succeeded, which is fair enough,\u201d Sania added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45403\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/53583578.jpg\" alt=\"Sania Mirza remains on the top\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sania has been training at the MSLTA here for four days and is slated to leave for Brisbane next week for her first tournament, where she will partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States as her long-term partner Barbara Strycova will be playing in Auckland around the same time. But Sania made it very clear that she will partner with Barbara in the Grand Slams which will be starting with the Australian Open where she will bid to defend the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be the second consecutive year end when Telangana brand Ambassador Sania Mirza will finish as the no. 1 women\u2019s doubles player and the Hyderbadi tennis ace is happy to remain at the top. The 30-year-old is also conscious of the fact that she can\u2019t be there for eternity and is not taking any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21830,21837,21834,21832,21835,1082,1200,21829,21831,21833,21836],"class_list":["post-45400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-consecutive-year","tag-french-open","tag-grand-slam","tag-hyderbadi-tennis","tag-next-year","tag-sania","tag-sania-mirza","tag-sania-mirza-remains-on-the-top","tag-telangana-brand-ambassador","tag-win-eight-tournaments","tag-womens-doubles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sania-Mirza-remains-on-the-top.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}