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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
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Global sports brand Adidas signed India’s tennis sensation Sania Mirza for a multi-year contract. Hartwin Feddersen, Director of Marketing at Adidas India said, “Sania Mirza is one of the most recognizable faces of global tennis and is a youth icon amongst young Asians across the world. This is a big moment for adidas and for Indian sports. Sania Mirza’s appeal goes well beyond tennis and the sporting world and it’s only natural for us to use her as a global brand ambassador for adidas. She is a perfect fit for our brand as she personifies the passion, energy and boldness that adidas stands for. We welcome her into the adidas family and look forward to a long association with her.” |
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
.jpg "Image") After his break up with Kareena, it seems that Shahid is coming closer to tennis player ‘Sania Mirza’. Is this statement true…? A few days back, the hot and happening pair was seen together at Bangalore’s Windsor Sheraton. |
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
.jpg "Image") The new year has an old smell and it is that familiar scent called confidence. Everyone carries it, in tiny fists and pristine gym bags, certain in their hearts this will be their year. When the calendar turns in tennis, it is like starting over. By summer some muscles will complain, some forehands misfire, but for now, January, everyone is entitled to hope.
The new season is a time of new balls, new clothes, new bodies, but most of all new beginnings. Sania Mirza, whose 2007 was arrested by injury, says from her hotel room in Perth: “In the new year, you think better things will come". |
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
Tennis star Sania Mirza, who earned the ire of Islamic fundamentalists for shooting on the Mecca Masjid premises, tendered an "unequivocal" apology on Thursday. In a letter to the Imam of the Mecca Masjid, she said: "It is with a deep sense of remorse that I apologise to all my brothers and sisters and respected elders who have been anguished by my unwittingly entering a portion of land belonging to Mecca Masjid while filming the Charminar with the intention of promoting the heritage monument which is symbolic of our city."
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
Seems like Sania Mirza will get a respite from the Mecca Masjid controversy. Masjid officials have asked police to withdraw the case against the tennis star. Sania had later apologised for shooting a commercial in the Masjid premises on December 13.
Police though are yet to take a decision on withdrawing the case. However, there is no word on the case filed against the advertising agency. The case had been registered against Sania in connection with the shooting for a commercial in the historic Mecca mosque in Hyderabad.
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
A patch-up between Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi for the sake of country's Olympic campaign was a bright note to end an year in which senior pros disappointed and youngsters shone in patches.
As the Olympic year beckons, India's medal hopes got a fillip with Bhupathi announcing and Paes endorsing that they are game to shake hands and pair up for the quadrennial extravaganza. If 2006 ended on a sour note when Lee-Hesh parted ways, this announcement brought smiles on the faces of the game's lovers in the country.
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
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A knee surgery may have kept Sania Mirza out of action for two months but a career-best singles ranking of 27 and a slew of wins over top 20 players convince her that she had the best year of her career so far. Bouncing back from the surgery to touch new heights this year, Sania proved her initial success was not a flash in the pan and says it was a "personal victory" for her in the breakthrough year. "It was a successful year for me - perhaps my best so far. And it was a personal victory for me to have done reasonably despite the knee surgery that also took away 10 weeks from my year," Sania told PTI. |
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
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Tennis star Sania Mirza was on Monday signed by world's leading sports brand addidas as its first global brand ambassador.
Announcing this, Hartwin Feddersen, director of marketing, adidas India said: "Sania is one of the most recognisable faces of global tennis and is a youth icon amongst young Asians across the world. Her appeal goes well beyond tennis and the sporting world and it's only natural for us to use her as a global brand ambassador."
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
Shooting of a commercial advertisement featuring Sania Mirza at the historic Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad has sparked a row with the minorities welfare department Tuesday lodging a complaint against her and an advertisement agency. Hyderabad district minority welfare officer Shaikh Kareemullah lodged a complaint with the Hussaini Alam police station against Sania and the agency, as the advertisement was shot allegedly without permission.
Police officials said they received the complaint and the investigations were on. B. Reddanna, assistant commissioner of police, Charminar, however, was not sure whether presence of Sania in the courtyard of the historic mosque and shooting of a film were cognisable offences. 'We are looking into it whether it constitutes a trespass,' he said and pointed out that she did not enter the main building but remained in the courtyard. Sania or her parents were not available for comment.
Kareemullah also filed a detailed report to the secretary of minority welfare department recommending action against the employees of the mosque, who failed to stop the shooting. |
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
At 21, Sania Mirza knows how to live life queensize. When the tennis sensation is in town recently for a promotional event for Deutsche Bank, We caught up with her for a Chat.
Between tennis and other things, do you have a life?
Of course I have a life, I've a great life. We do our own stuff when we can, in fact I am planning to watch a movie.
No wild partying?
I don't drink and I don't smoke. But yes, on occasions, I do like to party with close friends.
Isn't sports the new fodder for Bollywood?
I haven't seen Goal yet. I saw Chak De and loved it. It's an inspiring film for women's sports.
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