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She may not have succeeded in winning a gold at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games, but tennis star Sania Mirza is now looking forward to give her best in the next month’s Asian Games in Guangzhou. "We are going to try our best to win as many medals as possible at the Asian Games. In sports you never know what happens. But we are going to give our best," Sania said, when asked on chances of winning medals at the upcoming Asian Games, scheduled to take place in Guangzhou, China from November 12 to 27. Sania, who scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman tennis player to win three medals -- one gold and two silver -- in the previous edition of the Asian Games at Doha in 2006, is keen on continuing her good run in the Asian Games. "Asian Games is going to be lot tougher than the Commonwealth Games. Many top-20 players would come to play there. But every time I have gone to the Asian Games (Busan and Doha) I have come back with medals. So, I hope I can ...

The game of tennis has "enough depth" to negate the absence of star players when the sport makes its debut at the Commonwealth Games, feels India’s star player Sania Mirza. It would have been a treat for home fans had world No. 4 Andy Murray, former world No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, French Open finalist Samantha Stosur and Cyprus’ Marcos Baghdatis, who recently stunned Rafael Nadal, not pulled out of the Games. The Games are clashing with prestigious season-ending ranking events on the two professional Tours, forcing players to decide against playing in the Games. Sania, who has been India’s face on the WTA circuit in last half-a-decade, feels star-factor or rankings doesn’t count much when one is on court. "As a tennis player, one can only compete with the players who are on the other side of the net! However, I can assure you that at least in a global sport like tennis, the depth is tremendous and stardom or rankings have no bearing once a player enter...