Sania Mirza will be heading to Las Vegas for a week starting March 2.
There will be no time for entertainment for Sania. Instead she will spend the entire week sweating it out at Gil Reyes' training centre."It's going to be a new experience and I'm looking forward to it," Sania said.
"I've heard so much about it from Ana (Ivanovic) and (Fernando) Verdasco, who had trained there before he made the semifinals of the Australian Open."
"This is going to be a short stint because I'll be playing tournaments in the following week. If it works well for me I want to go over for a longer stint in the near future."
Sania will be joined by coach Sven Groeneveld at Reyes' centre."The schedule hasn't been drawn up as yet," Sania's father Imran said.
"As in, how much time she spends in the gym and how much working out, but we should have that finalized in the next couple of days," he added.
After the training, Sania is hoping to get wildcards to play in Indian Wells and Miami. Groeneveld will be joining her at both events.
(Via The Times of India Sports; Image via Yahoo! Sports)
No, Rafael Nadal's uncle Miguel Ángel, a former pro football player, wasn't proposing to his nephew to move from tennis to football. During half time of the Spanish league match between Mallorca and Racing de Santander, Matéu Alemany, one of the league’s directors awarded Nadal with a medal as a symbol for his incredible success in tennis.
Uncle Toni was also honoured and received his medal.
Matéu said the reason for the award was because of “the amazing journey they’ve had together in their professional careers, which has taken them to the top of the world rankings and has made Rafa the best Spanish sportsman in history”.
(Via Rafael Nadal's official website; Image via sports.sina.cn)
Rafael Nadal signed a deal with Paris-based Inter Parfums to be their global ambassador for its Lanvin line of fragrances last October.
Nadal who helped develop a new Lanvin fragrance called "L'Homme Sport" was supposed to arrive for a summer 2009 launch.
But we don't mind it to be earlier, aren't we?
Inter Parfums is planning to launch the brand throughout Europe and the US. Not sure when it's going to be made available in Asia.
Inter Parfums creates and manufactures several brands of fragrances and cosmetics under license, including Burberry, Paul Smith, Christian Lacroix and Van Cleef & Arpels.
Available in:
Eau de Toilette Vaporisateur, 100 ml, 65 euros
Après-rasage Vaporisateur, 100ml, 46 euros
(Via Rafael Nadal's official website)
Yesterday, Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships top seed and world. 3 Novak Djokovic had his first experience in a flight simulator courtesy of Emirates.
The A380 flight took Djokovic on his chosen route, from Belgrade to Dubai. He flew with Emirates Captain Milan Kosanovic, a fellow Serbian.“It’s always fun to do this kind of activities in Dubai, last year I skied indoors at the Mall of Emirates and this year the flight simulator. I had so much fun, it looked so real,” said Djokovic.
On the other hand, Andy Roddick, who won at Memphis last weekend, 'flies kite' (translated from Cantonese 'FFK') by withdrawing from the tournament as a protest to the UAE's decision not to grant Israeli player Shahar Peer a visa to compete in last week’s women’s event.
Sania Mirza will be heading to Las Vegas for a week starting March 2. 
