Her unswerving self-belief and the ability to dig deep see her through.

Sania Mirza’s ‘new wrist’ — as the young woman chooses to call her post-reconstructive surgery right wrist — is going to take a lot of intelligent coaxing before it begins to do her bidding as obediently as the loyal ‘old one’ did to catapult her to stardom.

New Delhi: Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, forced to withdraw from the French Open starting next week as she is yet to recover from a surgery on her right wrist, hopes to get back to professional tennis in time for Wimbledon in the second half of June.