In The Indian Express, Viren Rasquinha, a former captain of India’s national hockey team, on tennis star Sania Mirza’s decision to skip Indian tournament.
If the news that Sania Mirza is seriously contemplating to skip the Bangalore Open and maybe all future tournaments in India were to be true, it would be a tragedy for Indian sport. I say tragedy because let’s face the facts. Besides cricket, sport in India has very few genuine stars and household names. And Sania is not just a star, her appeal far transcends that. She is a role model and an icon to millions of little girls in a country where women sports stars can be counted on the fingertips of one hand.
Expectations of her have very often been unrealistically high and sometimes she is expected to pulverise every opponent into submission, even if it happens to be one of the Williams sisters across the net. But more than that I really feel sorry for her, because at times her national commitment has been questioned and she has been strangled by the religious issues surrounding her attire and endorsements.
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