Sa nia yet so far

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If you sat up late Wednesday night this week and watched Sania Mirza's first round match vs. Elena Dementieva you would feel pretty much like I did, hopeful and excited. After all these days of rootless rooting for soccer teams of varying hues, here was a chance to cheer where we counted. In forty minutes flat my emotions were lobbed, smashed and tossed around pretty much like those tennis balls the players were going after. From hopeful and excited to frustrated and cynical didn't take too long. First set. Sania Mirza no. 38 in the world was leading 4 - 1. Even the cameras seemed to know she was the woman to watch. Big close ups of dangly earrings, jaunty hair knot, expressive reactions to line calls and some aggressive shots dominated screen time. The twenty year old who had put Indian women on the world....