sania mirza is the new avatar on stage, the teenage icon, the symbol of youth, full of energy and passion! well, the girl next door is suddenly in the news, after falling in the top 100 bracket in women's tennis.
the media is full of sania saga, with her glamarouns, sexy blow-ups.... and the girl herself is living a far surreal life I guess.. well, what does this ranking, supposedly belonging to the elites in women's tennis, bring forth? am sure it is top class for any indian lady, taking the pros in the tournament till date.. and winning a WTA torunament in the home town adds to the already spinning euphoria....
dont you think, we- the media, the tennis fans, and the readers/viewers at large, miss the larger picture? the ranking that sania enjoys at the moment is mediocre when comapred to world standards.. you have the venus sisters with their powerful shots ruling the game, you have the talented, beautiful, russian teenage chics bringing a new wave of glamarous tennis to the living rooms.. you have other bunch of talented ladies, europian, american, emerging with a new found enthusiasm.. is the indian lady game enough for them? well, she would be.... she would make it, sans the media glits and glamour... sans the hype and fanfare that throws her into seventh heaven... that throws her inside a ring of tight lipped security forces... that puts her own right to privacy in peril...
let's be realistic and give a big hand to this lady with the nerves to bag a grand slam in the near future... let's not spoil her chances by being over enthusiastic and unreasonably liberal in adding to the euphoria that surrounds her...
cheers to you sania... miles to go before you sleep...
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