Date:19/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/19/stories/2008101960162400.htm

Sport - Tennis

Sania happy with recovery

NEW DELHI: Sania Mirza has recaptured her wiry frame and looks hungry, but she is in no hurry to return to the professional tennis circuit. “The season is over. I am happy with the recovery,” Sania said.

India’s best-ever woman tennis player, ranked 27 in singles and 18 in doubles around the same time last year, is in the Capital to seek the guidance of a doctor who has already won her confidence by speeding up the recovery of her wrist.

During the Olympics in Beijing in August, Sania had been troubled by pain on her wrist that had undergone surgery earlier in the season. The pain was in a new part of the wrist and needed fresh diagnosis. She was forced to take rest and seek professional advice.

“It was tough to diagnose for the doctors. There was even a suggestion that it may require another surgery. We even feared that I could play only in December. (Cricketer) Yuvraj Singh suggested a doctor here, and I am glad that I have already been able to hit thrice in the last 10 days,” Sania said after a training session at the DLTA courts here on Saturday. — Special Correspondent