With the specific intent of making the Telugu-speaking sports fraternity and the sports lovers in general more familiar with the success story of India’s best-ever women’s tennis player, Sania Mirza, assistant chief reporter of ‘Sakshi’ daily Mohammad Abdul Hadi translated the biography of the famed tennis star “Ace Against Odds’ into Telugu titled ‘Tennis Diggajam — Sania Mirza’.
The book comprising 300 pages and priced at ₹ 295 was brought out by the Delhi-based Reem Publications.
Mr. Hadi got the first copy of the book released by the tennis star in the city and apparently she was pleased with the effort hoping that more and more people would come to know about her life and the struggles she faced in her career.
“The reason for translating this book is that I have seen some of the original books on famous personalities translated into Telugu with full of mistakes. So, I was very keen that the book exactly reflects what was written in the English version of Sania’s biography,” Mr. Hadi said.
The 37-year-old sports scribe incidentally entered the profession the same year (2003) when Sania started making an impact at the highest level. “That was also one of the reasons. Having seen her from those days, I wanted to be looked up as someone who has followed her career closely,” says Hadi for whom this is the first book he has penned.
“I have constantly interacted with Mr. Imran Mirza (Sania’s father) about the book and I am grateful to him and to his entire family for extending their complete support,” the author said.
