Dubai is special for Sania Mirza. So special that the Indian tennis ace set up a base in the UAE. A long-time Dubai resident, Sania chose the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships to call time on her 18-year career.
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00:00Sania, 20 years on the tour, this is going to be your last tournament, how are you feeling right now about this?
00:07Me and Salah are going hand in hand here.
00:14I knew from last year that I was going to stop soon and I'm just really excited to be back in Dubai and to end it here because like it was mentioned before,
00:2418 years ago a lot of things amazing started for me here. As scary as that sounded, it was in 2005 when I first played here and I remember feeling Kuznetsova
00:34and like it was a long time ago but I couldn't think of a better place to finish my career and it's always been a pleasure because Dubai has been my home,
00:43away from home for the longest time but now it's finally actually my home.
00:47So it's always great to be back here playing here with the crowd but also I always get such a warm welcome here from everybody in the tournament so I'm really excited to be here.
00:58What do you think will be the part of tennis that you will miss the most when you actually stop competitively playing?
01:06I just think the competition, the feeling of walking onto big courts and winning. I think that's a feeling that's very difficult to replace in any other walk of life.
01:18So probably that but I think that it's important to adventure out different things and I think my priorities are a bit different now with the baby and stuff so I'm looking forward to the next phase of my life.
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