Indian tennis ace is happy she recovered from injury and can play at her best
Indian icon Sania Mirza crashed out of the Australian Open Wednesday but said she was just happy to be back after a painful six months on the sidelines. Her 6-3, 6-2 loss to Russian 10th seed Nadia Petrova was only her second match back and even winning once here was good enough for Mirza, who shoulders the hopes and expectations of a sports-mad nation.
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"When you're playing theu00a0World Nou00a010 you expect her to raise her game under pressure and that is exactly what she did," she said of her opponent. I was a break up and I played a decent match but I still have a lot to work on. There are no excuses. I could blame it on a lack of match practice time, or on playing the world number 10. I had a sore stomach as well," she added.
"But at the end of the day I have to give her credit."
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