Mumbai - The Indian tennis player, Sania Mirza, recalls her single-mother parenting as a “daunting" task. The cross-border athlete couple Sania Mirza, an Indian tennis player and Shoaib Malik, Pakistan’s batter have divorced each other in 2024, 14 years after their marriage. They announced their pregnancy on April 23, 2018. Izhaan Mirza Malik.

7 years after Izhaan’s birth, Sania Mirza is now a single parent. "For me, single parenting is hard, and also because we are working and we do so many different things," Sania Mirza said to Karan Zohar in a conversation. Karan Zohar also highlighted the fact that, besides facing the “daunting” task of being a single parent, she also has to deal with the cross-border aspect of her motherhood. Karan said, "Yours is cross border as well. You have a situation which is even more daunting and overwhelming."

Sania also opened up about her loneliness in single parenting. She said that she often skipped her dinner to avoid loneliness. "The amount of times that I have skipped dinner because I didn’t want to eat alone. I think it helped me lose weight. I don’t feel like eating dinner. I would rather just watch something and sleep,” she said. She also revealed her hardships of the distant connection with her son, Izhaan, as she has to travel to India, leaving her son in Dubai. “I find it challenging to leave him because I live in Dubai and I travel to India. That’s the biggest challenge for me to stay away for a period of one week. That for me, is the hardest part, anything else I’m fine with,” She said.