Beijing, Aug. 7: Roger Federer’s Indian cheerleaders are entitled to feel betrayed. My young Swiss co-passenger on the flight to Beijing didn’t seem to have an inkling that India was taking part in the Olympics.

“Oh, you are from India!” she said, and was even more surprised to learn that Dhyan Chand’s country had been making it to the Games for 80 years.

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.

Stockholm: Form continued to elude Sania Mirza and the Indian ace crashed out of the Nordea Nordic Light Open with a gruelling three-set loss to Czech Iveta Benesova in the second round.

In an over two-hour contest, Benesova rallied to beat the sixth- seeded Sania 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday.

Sania Mirza is having some difficultly with coming back from her injugries. Sania has hard some tough losses in early rounds of big tournements. Today was no difference, the Indian ace, Sania, lost in three sets to Czech Iveta Benesova in the second round. Sania had won the first set 4-6 but could not finish the match and Iveta won the last two sets 6-3, 6-3. The Hyderabadi girl had already lost in her doubles match just in the first round.

The most speculated bachelor in bollywood is Shahid who has been linked to many after his break up. It is said that a special screening of the film “Kismat Konnection” was arranged by Shahid for Sania Mirza and for his father Pankaj Kapoor on Monday afternoon at Adlabs in Filmcity. Pritam, Ramesh Taurani, Ahmed Khan and Supriya were also present in the show.