INDIAN tennis player Sania Mirza is on the comeback trail after a doctor suggested by cricketer Yuvraj Singh helped heal the right-wrist injury that cut her season short last year.

The 22-year-old Mirza, who became a star in India after reaching the US Open fourth round in 2005, pulled out of the first round of the Beijing Olympics in August last year and missed the rest of the season because of the injury. The player’s ranking then dropped to No100.

Mizra said she wasn’t sure what was wrong with her wrist after returning to India from the Olympic games — until Singh called with the recommendation.

“I went to see the doctor and after about five days, my pain in my wrist — which I was not able to hold a spoon properly with — had suddenly gone. “I had complete range of movement back and everything. About two weeks later I was playing tennis again,” Mirza said yesterday , adding that her wrist has felt healthy for the past several months.

She said the doctor practised Korean-style physical therapy.

Mirza was speaking ahead of the January 7-10 team-format exhibition tournament in Hong Kong, which also includes world No1 Jelena Jankovic, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, Vera Zvonareva, Anna Chakvetadze, Agnes Szavay and Zheng Jie.

AFP

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