‘Parents can now encourage young girls to take sport as a career,’ Sania Mirza on WPL deal
‘Parents can now encourage young girls to take sport as a career,’ Sania Mirza on WPL deal
Melbourne: Sania Mirza has been a pioneer in Indian women’s sport for a decade-and-half. At a time when Indian women got little coverage and endorsements, Mirza changed things around.
Besides playing a key role in the growth of women’s tennis in the country, she also worked towards changing archaic societal mindsets. One of them being the return to professional sport for a mother after the birth of her son Izhaan.
Things have changed over the years with many women athletes becoming household names. 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist and 2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist PV Sindhu, for instance, was ranked 12th in the list of the World’s Highest Paid Female Athletes by Forbes.
The latest shot in the arm in the growth of women’s sport in India came with BCCI announcing five Women’s Premier League (WPL) franchises lapped up for a combined ₹ 4,669.99 crore.
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