B'day girl: Shoaib Akhtar is one of my favourite cricketers along with Tendulkar and Ganguly says Sania Mirza
On the eve of her 21st birthday, Sania Mirza tells Taus Rizvi that her target for next year will be to improve upon her fitness, movement and ranking
Happy Birthday! You are going to be 21. How you are going to celebrate it?
With family and close friends.
Any birthday resolutions?
I'm not one of those who keeps making new resolutions every few months. I have my long term goals and I continue to work towards that.
So, how has been year 2007?
I think I've had a good year in tennis despite some injuries and a surgery. I've had some great wins over the likes of Hingis, Schnyder, Golovin and Safina in singles and in doubles I've beaten the world No. 1 and 2 teams of Black-Huber and Raymond-Stosur while playing with 2 different partners.
Have you set any target for yourself for the coming year?
My target has always been to go on improving and to keep working on my weaknesses.
How do you look up to the future and the year 2008?
I think I needed this break and now I'm looking forward to the next season.
Which are the areas you think you need to work on?
Serve, fitness, movement, rankings and a whole lot of things.
You won three doubles title out of seven with your earlier partner Leizel Huber? After you split with Huber, she has recently won WTA tour championship? What was the reason for your split with her?
Black is her regular doubles partner and has been for a long time. Huber only played with me in India and then when she was coming back from an injury and Black had opted for another permanent partner at that time.
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