VOTE FOR SANIA

[akhilis2cool]

she won the first round

yess! she did really well ...though at times she seemed to be loosing her concentration...but washington too made mistakes which sania cashed in on

[Long gone HP]

How do you onow that they were not gud, just coz noone wrote abt them, how will they become gud when they didnt have or get the money required to play on the tour...... or for the plastic surgery which sania paid for....

forgot to add.....

Sania was given a GVK sponsership when she was nothing, there were better indian players on the tour.

Sania was promoted by the GVK group from the past 5/6 years, apart from other sponsors GVK group itself has invested nearly 1 crore on sania.......

How many of the Indian girls listed above had so much money to go ahead?

Sex sells..... Everywhere

I know they were not as good as Sania because I used to follow Indian tennis closely at the time they used to play. I'm talking about religiously reading about the national and challenger circuit in sportstar and even watching matches whenever I could. Was lucky enough that my school also hosted a few national circuit tournaments.



Maybe they could have been probably as good or maybe even better than Sania had they got the kind of financial backing that Sania does today. But then we can't and we shouldn't reason on "ifs" and "maybes".



I'm not against sponsorship. Infact, I'm all for it. I'm all praise for the GVK group for ensuring that another budding talent didn't end up the Manisha, Nirupama and Rushmi way.



But sponsorship and media hype are two different things and we shouldn't be mixing them up. My point is that Sania still has a long way to go and giving her the kind of halo that the media is now, is not correct. It does nothing but create a false sense of achievement in the person and leads to a stagnation in the achievements.



Sex sells....everywhere? Not really....and I don't think Sania's media hype is entirely because of her looks. If you look around, I'm sure you'll see a lot of other good-looking faces in Indian sport. Not all of them have the kind of exposure she does. But the media should take note of the fact I've stated earlier too that there are also many uncelebrated faces that deserved more than Sania and they were sidelined due to reasons best known to them. And they should make amends.