"Everyone dreams of playing Wimbledon and winning it. I am glad this dream came true for me so fast in my career. It feels great after so many years of struggle." - Sania Mirza

"As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long," Sania said following the fracas.

"How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days."

Sania's goal is to stay in the WTA's top 50 for three to four years. "Let us see how it goes," she says. "A lot of factors come into play, like luck and destiny."

Sania Mirza may not have come into this world with a racket in her hand, but it didn't take long for the tennis phenom to pick one up.

Born on November 15, 1986, in Mumbai, India, Sania was encouraged to start playing the sport at the age of 6.

"I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day," she recalls, "and that's how it started. My mum said 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?', and that's how I started playing."

Sania's goal is to stay in the WTA's top 50 for three to four years. "Let us see how it goes," she says. "A lot of factors come into play, like luck and destiny."

Future

What lies in the future for the young tennis star? "I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that," she muses. "I might, at some point, take two years off to study interior decoration. Or I just might, when I am 24 or so, open a tennis academy and just start coaching."

When it comes to men, Sania has a very specific idea of what she likes. "He has to be good looking and over six feet tall," she says. "No, on a serious note, I think he needs to understand me and he needs to be a nice person and not have any ego hassles. I need a guy who understands me." Think you fit the bill? Keep in mind that you'll have to get by Naseem Mirza, Sania's mother and constant traveling companion on the pro circuit.