Tennis Player and RCB mentor Sania Mirza has arrived at the Royal Challengers Bangalore ahead of the first edition of the Women’s IPL. She was seen interacting with the RCB players. The official Twitter page of the Royal Challengers Bangalore tweeted with a caption saying ‘Mentor’s day out with the girls’.
The journey of Sania Mirza is nothing short of inspirational. From a country where tennis players are produced very scarcely, Sania was the torch bearer for Indian tennis for quite a while. Mirza retired from Tennis after the Australian Open earlier this year. Her husband Shoaib Malik is also a cricketer who plays for Pakistan.
She has been through many ups and downs in her career and would be mentoring the side on how to deal with pressure situations. She is vastly experienced and knows how to stay calm in pressure situations.
Mirza was pleased to join the RCB squad and is looking forward to working with the ‘mental aspect’ of the cricketers.
“I was a little surprised [at being offered a mentorship role], but I was really excited,” Mirza told RCB TV. “I want to make young girls believe sport can be one of the first career choices for them. I want to help the next generation into believing in themselves no matter how much the odds are against you, you can achieve your goals.”
“The mental aspect of it is something I look forward to working with the younger girls,” she said. “I feel I can [help] bring in the mental steadiness, the mental belief, I can talk of the experiences I’ve had over 20 years of playing. Being the only [Indian] woman doing it for so many years has been lonely, but the pressure has been high, that kind of stuff is something I can truly help with.”
The Royal Challengers Bangalore team will face the Delhi Capitals on March 5 at the Brabourne Stadium.
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