Sania Mirza
Sania Mirza Medal record Women's Tennis Competitor for  India Afro-Asian Games Gold 2003 Hyderabad Women's Singles Gold 2003 Hyderabad Women's Doubles Gold 2003 Hyderabad Mixed Doubles Gold 2003 Hyderabad Women's Team Asian Games Bronze 2002 Busan Mixed Doubles Gold 2006 Doha Mixed Doubles Silver 2006 Doha Women's Singles Silver 2006 Doha Women's Team Silver 2010 Guangzhou Mixed Doubles Bronze 2010 Guangzhou Women's Singles Bronze 2014 Incheon Women's Doubles Gold 2014 Incheon Mixed Doubles Commonwealth Games Silver 2010 Delhi Women's Singles Bronze 2010 Delhi Women's Doubles Sania Mirza (born 15 November 1986, in Mumbai) is a professional Indian tennis player. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as India's No.1 player, both in singles and doubles. Throughout her career, she has established herself as one of the highest-paid and high-profile athletes in India. Sania is the most successful female Indian tennis player in history and one of the most popular female athletes in the world. More than a decade after her debut on the tennis-court, she still carries the torch for women's tennis in the country. From quiet the beginning to making history for India and now winning some of the biggest doubles titles on the planet, Mirza has been a trailblazer through and through. In her career, Mirza has notable wins over Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva and Marion Bartoli; as well as former World No. 1s Martina Hingis, Dinara Safina, and Victoria Azarenka. She is the highest ranked female player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles but a wrist injury forced her to give up her singles career and focus on doublesr reaching as high as 5 in doubles rankings. She has achieved a number of firsts for her native country, including surpassing US$1 million in career earnings (now over 4 million), winning a Pro-level title, and winning three major mixed doubles titles at the 2009 Australian Open, the 2012 French Open and the 2014 US Open; as well as qualifying for (and eventually winning) the WTA Finals in 2014. Mirza is also the third Indian woman in the Open Era to feature and win a round at a Grand Slam tournament. On top of that, she has won a total of 14 medals including 6 Gold at three major multi-sport events, namely the Asian Games, the Commonwealth Games and the Afro-Asian Games. Mirza was named one of the 50 heroes of Asia by Time in October 2005. In March 2010, The Economic Times named Mirza in the list of the "33 women who made India proud". In a country where female athletes are few and far between, and where cricket and Bollywood loom large on the cultural horizon, she has become an icon in her own right. Sania Mirza has been appointed as the UN Women's Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia during the event held to mark the International Day To End Violence Against Women on 25 th November 2014.