Sania Mirza is brand ambassador for Hyundai Getz

Sania Mirza is brand ambassador for Hyundai Getz

Looks like cricket and cricketers is on the last option list for the companies looking for new faces to endorse their products. If Toyota chose Aamir Khan for their innovative Innova vehicle, Hyundai has picked the latest teen sensation of India, Sania Mirza to promote their Hyundai Getz vehicle. Korean giant Hyundai’s Indian arm has signed the tennis star to fire up the sales of its latest car Getz that is facing competition from Maruti’s Suzuki Swift.

Sania would be representing the company and the car for a period of 3 years in a deal, which is said to be worth around Rs. 1.5 Crores. No one from the company or the Globosport, the professional managers of Mirza commented on the financial details of this deal. However, hiring Sania is not surprising news after all. Hyundai have on their list stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta for promoting their vehicles in the country.

Hyundai is well known to pick high profile celebrities and personalities for its products. Sania has been a household name ever since her shining performance in the recent tournaments. She reached the third round of this year’s Australian Open where she lost to younger of the William’s sisters Serena Williams.

She is ranked 34 in the world now and is said to be worth more than a crore if you are looking for her to market your brand name in the market. Hyundai on their part need a boost for their Getz car ever since Maruti launched Suzuki Swift at impressively low prices.

Sania vows to do whatever it takes to win Olympic medal

Carrying the hopes of a billion people is a ‘privilege’ for Sania Mirza and the Hyderabadi tennis ace vows to give everything it needs to bring home an individual Olympic medal, a feat only four Indians have managed since independence.

Sania will compete in the strongest ever singles field, led by world number one Serb Ana Ivanovic, in the history of the quadrennial extravaganza and the young Indian knows well that the road ahead is full of challenges.

Yet, she is determined to live up to the expectations.

“Winning an Olympic medal in any discipline is not easy and the women’s singles field in tennis is very, very tough. Winning a medal in women’s singles or doubles will have to be against all odds.

“But as someone representing the country, it is my duty to do whatever I possibly can to try and achieve this glory for my country,” Sania told PTI in an exclusive interview.

Whenever she enters the tennis courts, Sania knows the nation of one billion plus people is watching every movement curiously, but she says she does not buckle under the pressure.

“…It is a tremendous honour to represent India at the Olympics but I believe I carry the hopes of my people in every event that I participate in, including the Grand Slams. The pressure is not new to me and I consider it a great privilege,” she said. PTI

Sania Mirza and Shahid Kapoor in Love All?

Shahid Kapoor has been linked to many lovely ladies ever since he broke up with Kareena Kapoor and his latest romantic tangle is with tennis sensation Sania Mirza.

While some sections of the press were busy delving into a Shahid –Vidya Balan angle, Shahid and Sania were enjoying time together. Recently, Sania and Shahid decided not to bother about gossip-mongers, and spent nearly eight hours together on the sets of director Vishal Bharadwaj’s Kaminay, which also stars Priyanka Chopra and Amol Gupte.

Says a source from the sets of Kaminay, “It was a 7 am shift. Sania and Shahid did not come together, but once Sania dropped by, Shahid and Sania were almost inseparable. What was surprising was that they were very open about their relationship. Their body language said it all. When Shahid was not facing the camera, he spent all his time with Sania. Sania spent a lot of time with Shahid in his vanity van.”

Apparently Sania was cheering Shahid in all the scenes and checking out the scenes on the monitor.The Shahid- Sania romance first came into light when the two spent some time together in a hotel in Bangalore, last year. Thereafter they have been spotted together many times

Now Bollywood Movie Based on sania mirza?

Now, a film is rumoured to be based on the life of tennis star Sania Mirza. The film titled I For India will be produced by Deepak R Gandhi – MD of Umbrella Films in collaboration with Los Angeles-based Distant Horizon Films.

Gandhi has recently completed a comedy film, Kuchh Khel Kuchh Masti.

When contacted, Hemant Das, the director of the film, says, “The film is definitely inspired by the life of Sania Mirza. But it’s best to say that it is based on anybody who dreams of making it big and who chases the dream against all odds.”

So what are the similarities between the film and the tennis icon’s life? Hemant says diplomatically, “We are definitely not drawing up any biographical inspiration.

However, there might be some character traits similar to Ms Mirza. It’s a mix of fiction and reality.”

And who has been signed to play the title role? “We have Esha Deol in mind,” adds the debutante director.

Any guesses for who will play Sania’s love interest, Shahid Kapur?

Mirza agrees to Birmingham return

Indian star Sania Mirza has confirmed she will be playing at the DFS Classic in Birmingham from 9-15 June.

Mirza, 21, is ranked 32 in the world and has taken part in the tournament at the Edgbaston Priory Club for the past three years.

Tournament Director Marjory Howie said: “It’s a great boost to have Sania coming back to compete in Edgbaston as she’s been a crowd favourite.

“I’m sure Sania will help to make this DFS Classic one of the best we’ve had.”

Her best performance in the tournament was in 2006 when she reached the third round.

Mirza has also competed at Wimbledon for three consecutive years, recording two second round appearances in the process.

Her lone WTA Tour title came at her home town event in Hyderabad in 2005, where she defeated Alona Bondarenko in the final.

Sania pulls out of French Open due to wrist injury

New Delhi: India’s tennis sensation, Sania Mirza, has officially pulled out of the French Open that will begin on May 25.

Sania had undergone a surgery on April 10 in Florida to repair a tear on her right wrist.

The cast was removed on May 5, and Sania has been undergoing physical rehabilitation since then.

She will be looking to get back onto the courts in time for the DFS Classic in Birmingham which starts on June 6.

Sania has suffered from a spate of injuries in the past too. She had been forced out of the circuit for months in 2007 due to a knee, muscle and a wrist injury.

SRK, Sania, Sachin may feature on postage stamps

Celebrities and national icons can now find immortality through postage stamps during their living years, if the government decides to end the decades long custom of honouring people only posthumously ( Watch ).

“We are considering a proposal to issue stamps on young achievers in various fields, who have made the nation proud. These personalities include Shah Rukh Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, Sania Mirza, Harbhajan Singh and Remo Fernandes among others,” Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of State for Communication and IT, said.

These people have achieved a lot in their life and this needs to be conveyed to the youth to encourage them, as well as promote philately.

“Stamp collection is not merely a hobby. It teaches about our culture, civilisation and important happenings within our country and outside,” the minister said, adding that this would also give the much required revenue to the postal department.

He, however, said that there was no custom hitherto to issue stamps on living persons. “It is very rare and exceptional… we are debating on this in the ministry and we expect to take a decision on this soon,” he said.

Asked if any amendment was required in the Postal Act to issue stamps on living personalities, he replied in the negative.

“No amendment is required in the Postal Act. We just need to take a decision. I have written a note to (Communication and IT) Minister A Raja suggesting this,” he said.