Back to playing my best tennis: Sania Mirza

After her showing in the first two Grand Slams of the year, India's Sania Mirza feels she is "blessed" to be fit again and playing her best tennis.

Sania at her best was touted as a top-ten player in the world.

That was four years ago when she was ranked 27th till a career-threatening wrist injury sent her sliding to a seemingly irreparable fall to 166 by the end of last season.



The cynics wrote her tennis obit and the optimists sympathised with her plight.

Sania has jumped to the 58th place in the singles rankings.

"I have managed to play without a break for one full year. I think I am getting back to playing my best now after my latest comeback," she said.

Unlike Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, Sania is trying to strike a balance between her singles play even as she is excelling in doubles with her Russian partner and good friend Elena Vesnina.

For starters she needed a wildcard to play in the season's first two tournaments ufffd in Dubai and Qatar. The next best thing to have happened to her was to find a permanent doubles partner, at least for the year. From then there was no stopping the Indian champion. Sania entered her first WTA Tour quarterfinals in singles and then won two doubles titles with Elena. "I have always maintained that if I could stay away from injuries for a prolonged period of time, everything else would fall into place."