Tennis champion Sania Mirza, who retired in 2023 after a glorious two-decade career, recalled how she felt “empty” the day after playing her last match in the Dubai Open. “Honestly, the first day I woke up after my last match, the morning after…I woke up and felt so empty. My parents were also at that time, like …’ but you wanted to retire’…ya, I did, but that day, it felt like a part of me had died. I don’t know how to put it any other way. It felt like I had to bury that life of mine that I lived for over 30 years and restart something and find a new schedule, a new routine.”

Admitting how she felt she had a schedule for three decades of her life, Sania continued: “I woke up in the morning and I realised there is no training or gym, because my entire day would be set. I knew my sche

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