Guntur, ANDHRA PRADESH / Hyderabad, TELANGANA :
For this tennis prodigy, the journey from the clay courts in the small town of Guntur to Road to Wimbledon Masters, a tennis tourney for Under-14 organised by All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, is a long one. She will take part in the Masters beginning on April 2 at Kolkata.
Ranked No 4 in Under-14 category and 14 in U-16 category, Mubhashira has been among the 16 top junior tennis players in India to be selected for the tourney, out of which two boys and girls would be invited to compete in the UK HSBC National Finals on the grass courts at Wimbledon in August every year.
Mubhashira would soon travel to Vietnam to take part in International Tennis Federation Asian 14 Championship which will begin on March 13.
Mubhashira had her first lessons on the clay courts at B.R Stadium under tennis coach Sk. Ahmmad during the summer camp in 2010. She later mastered the game in the tennis courts at NTR Municipal Stadium under coach G. Siva Prasad, North Club (Vijay Vardhan) and CTC (Venkat Rao).
“She was the pick of the boys and girls and her powerful ground strokes and an ability to cover the court stood out. For a girl of her age, she had an amazing fitness level,’’ Mr. Ahammad said.
Her father Sk. Baji is a small time trader but the family had moved to Hyderabad to enable Mubhashira to take coaching at Sania Mirza Tennis Academy.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Staff Reporter / Guntur – March 08th, 2016