Sania Mirza, India\u2019s former doubles world number one, said she will call time on her career aged 36 after next month\u2019s Dubai Tennis Championships, after her 2022 retirement plans were delayed due to injury.
\nMirza, regarded as her country\u2019s greatest women\u2019s tennis player, has won six Grand Slam doubles titles and will compete in her final major this month at the Australian Open, where she bagged the women\u2019s doubles crown in 2016.
\n\u201cI was going to stop right after the WTA Finals because we were going to make the WTA Finals, but I tore my tendon in my elbow right before the US Open, so I had to pull out of everything,\u201d Mirza told in an interview on Friday.
\nMirza, who has been dealing with a lingering calf injury, had planned to retire at the end of the 2022 season but an elbow injury in August ruled her out of the US Open.
\n\u201cHonestly, the person that I am, I like to do things on my own terms. So I don\u2019t want to be forced out by injury. So I\u2019ve been training,\u201d she added.
\nMirza became the first Indian to win a WTA singles title, when she won her hometown Hyderabad event in 2005. She broke into the top 30 by 2007 and reached her career-high ranking of world number 27.
\nAfter being plagued by a recurring, career-threatening wrist injury, Mirza forged a doubles partnership with Swiss great Martina Hingis. The self-styled \u201cSantina\u201d team won 14 titles, including Wimbledon and the US and Australian Opens.
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