Sania Mirza thanks PM for inspiring words after her farewell match
In a letter to the tennis legend, Modi called her as India's best tennis player who had made a lasting impact on Indian sports and inspired future generations of athletes.
Ace Indian tennis player Sania Mirza and her cricketer husband Shoaib Malik want a daughter and the couple have already decided the surname she would take.
The former world number one in doubles, Sania, has said whenever they decide to start a family she would want her child’s surname to be ‘Mirza Malik’.
“Today I will tell you a secret. My husband and I have spoken about it and we have decided that whenever we have a child, the child will have Mirza Malik as a surname and not just Malik. So that’s where we stand as a family including my husband. He actually wants a daughter,” Sania Mirza said during a panel discussion on ‘Gender Bias’ at the ‘Goa Fest 2018’.
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Sania Mirza also talked about gender bias in the society and about her personal experiences in this regard.
“We are two sisters and have never wished that we had a brother. I have had fights with my uncles and aunts, who talk about it or come up and tell my parents that they should have had a son. For us, daughters are daughters and there was nothing like wanting a son to carry the family name forward,” the 31-year-old from Hyderabad said.
“I have not changed my surname (post marriage) and my name is still Sania Mirza and it will remain that way. The family name is going to go forward,” she said.
Mirza said pay disparity between men and women players existed in sports and a way out of it was to change the mindsets of people towards women players.
-With PTI inputs.
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