MELBOURNE: Winning and losing are but moments and scorelines compute the sum of the difference, but it is the little steps, the big stretch, that tell the story. Sania Mirza knows.
The Hyderabad schoolgirl, just six, might not have bargained for all she has had to contend with when she started out. It was a love story after all. In the years that followed, she proved equal to the task, fought custom and tradition, spurned the beaten path and defied society. She skipped around cow dung courts in skirts.