Skirting the issue - The Long and Short of it

Imagine how would you find Sania Mirza wearing long sleeve shirts and long skirts and scamper across the court trying to get the volley across the net. Well you may well be faced with reality if the religious fundamentalists have their way. Oh yes they are proud of her achievements of scaling new heights, but they can’t gulp down the show of skin with the short skirts et al.

To each his own and if that means going back 75 years to the time of Suzanne Lenglen then so be it. But they would always want to go backwards. Obviously isn’t that a way of life for them.

As Sania continues her journey upwards in the women’s ranking beating higher seeded women, well she has also to improve her play to combat fundamentalist men who will be there playing off court with her in every round of a tournament. It’s going be a long time before we hear Game-Set-Match Sania Mirza, in the meanwhile we will be watching them lock verbal volleys at deuce.