Bengaluru: Superstar Tennis Sania Mirza loss haunted Rio Olympics five years.
“I still can not handle it and had a nightmare.
Suddenly I woke up from sleep and cry in my eyes.
It comes as close as it was and still can not get desperate,” he said.
Sania and Rohan Bopanna lost the bronze medal match with a pair of double-double Republic.
“After the game, we were on a bus an hour to the airport and did not say a word.
No one can say.
It was a dream come so close [to fruition].
It was the first time I saw Rohan cry,” he said.
He did, however, maintain the beauty of the athlete’s life is an opportunity to come back stronger.
Sania also talk about what happened misconstrued as stamping on the Tricolor India, his heart then, the sacrifice of his family, his sister who are in the business of fashion, and his marriage to Cricketer Shoaib Malik.
“I love what I do.
I enjoy the struggle, the pain that I get when I go to the gym.
And that is why I am still touched the gym.
My parents never made me feel like they are burdened,” he said.
For questions about how she balances motherhood and tennis with traveling to the tournament with his son, he said: “I have asked this question a lot.
I wish it was submitted to him and also those traveling with their children …
it is challenging.
You have to adjust to a different time zone, you must adjust your son with it.
But when she grows up, she will be proud she had a mother who did not kill her dream since she became a mother.
“So, if he wished to see more players world-class tennis from India soon? “All the players have so far emerged not because of the system, but because of the efforts of individuals.
We can not expect miracles to happen overnight.
But we can expect the system will be better,” he said.
He was speaking after virtually connected in Bangalore Literature Festival on Saturday.