IT couldn’t have happened any other way. In the week Indian women’s sport soared to never-before-seen heights, its OG superstar, Sania Mirza, bid farewell from big-time tennis. The ace, partnering Rohan Bopanna, lost in the mixed doubles final of the Australian Open on Friday. The result, though, is really irrelevant here. She didn’t need to win that final. Her legacy in the Indian sporting ecosystem was safe and secure long before she announced that this year’s edition of the Open would be her final dance with the stars (she aims to play two more events before retiring).
What was thrilling about the Mirza experience even from the beginning was the unabashedness of it all. She never hid who she was and challenged India’s conservative mindset at every step of the way. Remember the t-shirt slogan that had “Well behaved women rarely make history” or the one that read “You can either agree with me, or be wrong”. These may seem small in 2023 — or maybe not — but there was literally a point of time when what was written across her t-shirt became prime time news. “It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days,” she had remarked once. She had just turned 19 when she was forced to say this after a few people questioned her attire. This was a few months after she became the first Indian woman to advance to the fourth round of a Major (2005 US Open).
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