Just recently I have uploaded a link to the 'Unofficial' website of Sania Mirza fans. Well, there were two reasons for incorporating this link on my blogspot.
The obvious reason is that I am her fan. Fine, I would like to clarify here that it’s not because of her physical statistics or her tennis game (which by no means would attract any fans), but for other reasons. To state that here, it’s purely due to the fact that she has emerged successfully as a new face in the list of Indian Sport personalities. Unconsciously & unintentionally, she has dared to bring upon a new face in the Indian Sporting arena. & the Indian ‘junta’ has also responded positively to accommodate her amidst the likes of Sachin, Sehwag & Sourav. That does not mean that other non-cricketing sporting icons like Dhanraj Pillai or Anjali Bhagwat have not done their job, but the penetration level of Sania amongst the masses has been fast. Also, other factors like the fatwa raised by Muslim clerics for her on-court costumes, the media coverage on that issue & many such have been catalytic in helping Sania gain coverage. This can be further gauged from the fact that of all the sporting personalities who received the Padma awards this year, it was only Sania’s name that got most media & public attention.
The other reason to include a link to this webpage from my blogspot is that the website proudly claims to be the ‘Unofficial’ website of Sania fans. ‘Unofficial’! Does that means that other websites of fans of celebrities or sport personalities are Official! Or is it that since Sania must have refused to fund to host this site, they chose to term it ‘Unofficial Fan site’! It further reminds me of the ‘Nothing Official About It’ ad campaign of Coca Cola during the 1996 Cricket world cup. Are the website hosts trying to say that there is ‘Nothing Official About’ the Sania fan’s website. Whew, too many possibilities. But ‘Unofficial’ is surely an eye-catcher. Whatever be the case, at the least, the website offers an opportunity for moderate (not die-hard) fans – like me – to express their views about her game (tennis, of course), to check out her updated tennis statistics, news & of course, the photo gallery.
Finally, being her fan, I wish her best of luck for her tennis career ahead.
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