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Mirza is an Indian Professional Tennis player. And her game has by far been the best an Indian Women player has ever achieved. With great records and titles to her name. Sania Mirza has been so good with her sports because she started at a very young Age of 6. Not only Sania Mirza has been in news because of her grand slam titles and records, but also because of her Husband who belongs to a certain nationality. Though even after all of this Sania Mirza has never kept a Family life a secret, she shared Photo of her son, Sister playing together and enjoying a good family time. Childhood Journey Sania Mirza was born into a Muslim sports family on 15 November 1986. And thus, had a lot of interest in different sports from the very beginning. Sania Mirza and her younger Sister Anam were raised as religious Muslim women in Hyderabad. As she belonged from a sports-loving family, her interest in sports was built from a very young age. And she started playing tennis and at the age of six. Though she chose to be a tennis player, she also completed her studies thoroughly. Both Sania Mirza and her younger Sister Anam share the same kind of bond with each other to date. Both of them post a lot of pictures together on their social media platforms. Giving people some sibling goals. At the Age of 15, Sania Mirza shifted her entire focus on tennis, as earlier she was a good athlete in many sports. And started to enhance her skills to make it as a professional player. Later, at the age of 18, she turned professional and her life changed for good. Professional Career of Sania Mirza Sania Mirza when started her career at junior level won 10 singles titles and 13 doubles titles as a junior player. Her first coach and mentor were her father and made her play at the junior level. He himself was a Sports Journalist but was highly passionate about sports. After looking at the success at the junior level she changed to a professional player in 2003, with an amazing start to her career. Turning Professional & first five years Sania Mirza started her professional career with an AP Tourism Hyderabad Open in her hometown itself, in 2003. But lost to Evie, in straight three sets. Further, she played Qatar Ladies Cup, but had a tough-luck, and lost in the first round for qualifying itself. She then had a start to winning matches in the Fed Cup, and then also won the 2003 Wimbledon’s Doubles Title with Alisa Kleybanova. Sania Mirza had a total of 4 wins in the ITF Circuit. Which got her into the Australian Open fir 2005, where she won the first two rounds with straight sets. But got defeated by the World Champion herself Serena Williams in the third, and was out of the tournament. And following the defeat, she won her first WTA Tournament the AP Tourism Hyderabad Open becoming the first Indian Women win the tournament. In the same year, she participated in Dubai, where she defeated Kuznetsova to reach the highest quarter-final of her career. In 2006, Sania Mirza was seeded to the US Open being the first Indian Women to be seeded for the US Open. And also got a chance to play the French Open for the first time. But her game kept on improving with every tournament she played and started reaching new heights. She started her following year 2007 with a high note, by making it to the semifinals of Hobart, quarter-finals in Banglore, the second round of the Australian Open, and semi-finals in Pattaya. Grand Slams Sania Mirza started her 2008 with Australian Open Singles and Australian Open Doubles but lost each of them to world-class players. And in the same year went through wrist injuries, which made her withdraw from all the tournaments ahead in the season. The year 2009 was fruitful for her. Though she lost the Australian Open Singles in round two. But won her first Grand Slam, Australian Doubles Title along with Mahesh Bhupati. And later on, she was quite praised for her performances that came with her on-field partner Mahesh, which made her win many more tournaments and titles moving forward. Her win was followed by a series of good performances in Singles where she reached the finals of Pattaya Women’s Open but lost the finals. She later played the Wimbledon Championship 2009, where she lost the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. Where she lost in the third round partnering along with Chuang and Mahesh. Being Successful Yet another successful combination came in 2013-14 for Mirza. Where she was seeing partnering with Cara Black. And both of them played many semi-finals, quarter-finals, and finals with her, of US Open. Leading to a historic win for both of them in 2014, by winning the WTA Finals defeating Hseih Su-Wei and Peng Shuai with the heaviest defeat. Breaking the record made 41 years ago and was the last match Mirza and Black played together. Sania Mirza at the Age of 28, went on to win her first mixed double US Open title along with her partner Bruno Soares. In 2015, Mirza started her doubles season with the world rank number 6 and rising through the ranks throughout her career. And started her new partnership with Hseih Su-Wei after a successful pair up with Black. But did not last for long enough, they only played a few decent matches. Sania Mirza’s next pair was with Martina Hingis a Swiss national player. The pair together won India Wells, Miami Open, Family Cup 2015, and reaching the finals of the Italian Cup. After their win at the Family Cup, Mirza became the first lady to be world number 1 in the doubles. Later, both of them together won the Wimbledon Championship Doubles and the Australian Open. Which became Sania’s third Grand Slam Title. And kept on winning matches till 2016. Both of them mutually decided to split up after some bad performances. And Mirza won a couple of titles with Barbora but had to stop playing because of sustaining long injuries. Winning Comeback 2020 Sania Mirza remained off the professional court for two long years. After her injuries, later Sania Mirza was about to be a mom at the age of 31. And later returned on the field with Nadia Kichenok. Both of them played the Hobart International in January 2020, and one the tournament. But lost their first round in the Australian Open because of Sania Mirza’s injury. Life Outside Tennis of Sania Mirza Social Life Contribution Sania Mirza being a passionate sports enthusiast, she opened her own Tennis Academy in Hyderabad. Where she trains the young and gives them a platform to showcase their talent, at a very early stage in their life. She also is the Brand Ambassador for Telangana, the state where Sania Mirza and her Sister were brought up. Other than this, she was recognized globally as the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia, making her the first South Asian Woman that has been appointed in history. Personal Life Sania Mirza and her personal life have always gained a lot of attention. In 2009, Sania Mirza was all set to marry her childhood friend. But was canceled. Later, Sania Mirza started dating her now-husband Shoaib Malik. Sania Mirza met her Husband met in Australia. When she was going through a tough time. And her Husband was there with her during the tough phase. And that is when both of them grew close enough and started dating each other. Shoaib Malik is a Pakistani National Cricket player by profession. And the couple got a lot of attention considering both their nationalities. Read here how the relationship between the countries did not matter for the couple. Sania Mirza and her Husband tied the knot on 12 April 2010 in a Hyderabadi Muslim Marriage in India and in Pakistan Custom Marriage in Sialkot, Pakistan. Later in 2018, the couple announced that Mirza was pregnant with their first child with an Instagram Post. And Shoaib shared the news of having a baby boy with the name Izhaan Mirza Malik. Sania Mirza was seen spending the last couple of years to be with her baby. And her career again began after her son turned 1. https://mybestguide.com/sports/sania-mirza/
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The prosecutor and defense attorney for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz agreed Tuesday that his 2018 attack that killed 17 people was horrible, but disagreed in their closing arguments on whether it was an act of evil worthy of execution or one of a broken person who should be imprisoned for life. Lead prosecutor Mike Satz and his defense counterpart, Melisa McNeill, painted for the 12 jurors competing pictures of what drove Cruz's attack at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day. For Satz, Cruz was driven by antisocial personality disorder — in lay terms, he's a sociopath. He deserves a death sentence because he "was hunting his victims" as he stalked a three-story classroom building for seven minutes. He fired his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle into some victims at close range and returned to wounded victims as they lay helpless "to finish them off." Satz pointed to Cruz's internet writings and videos, where he talked about his murderous desires such as when he wrote, "No mercy, no questions, double tap. I am going to kill a ... ton of people and children." "It is said that what one writes and says is a window into their soul," Satz said as the three-month trial neared its conclusion. The killings, he said, "were unrelentlessly heinous, atrocious and cruel." McNeill said neither Cruz nor herself has ever denied what he did and that "he knew right from wrong and he chose wrong." But she said the former Stoneman Douglas student is "a broken, brain-damaged, mentally ill young man," doomed from conception by the heavy drinking and drug use of his birth mother during pregnancy. She argued for a sentence of life without parole, assuring them he will never walk free again. "It's the right thing to do. Mercy is what makes us civilized. Giving mercy to Nikolas will say more about who you are than it will ever say about him," McNeill told the jury. Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty a year ago to murdering 14 students and three staff members and wounding 17 others. The jury will only decide his sentence, and a unanimous vote is required for death. Jurors can vote for death if they believe the prosecution's aggravating factors such as the multiple deaths and the planning outweigh the defense's mitigating circumstances such as his birth mother's drinking. They can also vote for life out of mercy for Cruz. Deliberations are expected to begin Wednesday. Cruz, dressed in an off-white sweater, sat impassively during the presentations, occasionally exchanging notes with his attorneys. A large number of the victims' parents, wives and family members packed their section of the courtroom, many of them weeping during Satz's presentation. The mother of a murdered 14-year-old girl fled the courtroom before bursting into loud sobs in the hallway. Just minutes earlier, the families had greeted each other with smiles, handshakes and hugs. "They all knew what was going on, what was going to happen," Satz said. As he had during the trial, Satz played security videos of the shooting and showed photos. He talked about the death of one 14-year-old girl. Cruz shot her and then went back to shoot her again, putting his gun against her chest. "Right on her skin. She was shot four times and she died," Satz said. He then noted a YouTube comment, which jurors saw during the trial, in which Cruz said: "I don't mind shooting a girl in the chest." "That's exactly what he did," Satz said. His voice breaking, Satz concluded his two-hour presentation by reciting the victims' names, then saying that for their murders "the appropriate sentence for Nikolas Cruz is the death penalty." McNeill during her presentation acknowledged the horror Cruz inflicted and said jurors have every right to be angry, "but how many times have we made decisions based solely on anger and regretted it?" She focused on her belief that heavy drinking by his birth mother, Brenda Woodard, during pregnancy left him with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. She said that accounts for his bizarre, troubling and sometimes violent behavior starting at age 2. "There is no time in our lives when we are more vulnerable to the will and the whims of another human being than when we are growing and developing in the wombs of our mothers," McNeill said. Woodard "poisoned him in the womb. He was doomed in the womb." She said Cruz's increasingly erratic personality left his widowed adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, overwhelmed. He punched holes in walls when he lost video games, destroyed furniture and killed animals. Visitors described the home as "a war zone," McNeill said. She pleaded with the jurors to give Cruz a life sentence, telling them that even if they are the only holdout they shouldn't fear what the reaction will be from the families or the community. Gesturing toward the victims' families, she said, "There is no punishment you could ever give Nikolas Cruz that would ever make him suffer as much as those people have and as much as they will continue to suffer every single day." "Sentencing Nikolas to death will not change that. It will not bring back those 17 dead people. Sentencing Nikolas to death will literally serve no purpose other than vengeance," she said. Instead, she said, "Look into your heart. Look into your soul. The right thing here, not the po[CENSORED]r thing, is a life sentence." Cruz's massacre is the deadliest mass shooting that has ever gone to trial in the U.S. Nine other people in the U.S. who fatally shot at least 17 people died during or immediately after their attacks by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in the 2019 massacre of 23 at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart is awaiting trial. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/10/11/parkland-school-shooter-jury-decide-death-prison-sentencing/10471944002/
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Musician Name: M. S. Subbulakshmi Birthday / Location: M. S. Subbulakshmi Main instrument: Vocal Musician Picture : Musician Awards & Nominations: Padma Bhushan and Bharat Ratna Best Performance: Vishnu Sahasranama, Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatham and Vishnu Sahasranamam, Pt. 1 Other Information:/
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Artist: M. S. Subbulakshmi Real Name: M. S. Subbulakshmi Birth Date /Place: 16|09|1916 / Madurai, India Age: She aged 88 at 2002 Social status (Single / Married): Married Artist Picture : Musical Genres : Classical Music Awards: Padma Bhushan, Bharat Ratna Award and many others Top 3 Songs (Names): Vishnu Sahasranama, Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatham and Vishnu Sahasranamam, Pt. 1 Other Information: M.S. Subbulakshmi began her Carnatic classical music training under her mother Shanmukhavadivu; and later in Hindustani classical training under Pandit Narayan Rao Vyas. Subbulakshmi first recording was released when she was 10 years old. She travelled to London, New York, Canada, the Far East, and other places as India's cultural ambassador. Her concerts at Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama in 1963; Carnegie Hall, New York; the UN General Assembly on UN day in 1966; Royal Albert Hall, London in 1982; and Festival of India in Moscow in 1987 were significant landmarks in her career.
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Artist: T. H. Vinayakram Real Name: T. H. Vinayakram Birth Date /Place: 11|08|1942/ Tamilnadu, India Age: 80 Social status (Single / Married):married Artist Picture: Musical Genres: Carnatic and fusion Awards: Padma awards and Sangit Award Top 3 Songs (Names): Thaniavardhanam, Ethutanilachi and Vinayaka Other Information: Vinayakram's concert career began at the age of 13. His first performance was on 5 March 1957 at the Rama Navami festival in Thoothukudi. While proceeding for the arangetram the tuned ghatam instrument was broken by a child named Ganesh, which by itself had been a good omen for his bright career. where he accompanied V.V.Sadagopan. He was soon accompanying many vocalists in Carnatic music at the time, including Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, M K Thiagaraja Bagavathar, Dr Sirkazhi S.Govindarajan, Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, G. N. Balasubramaniam, Madurai Mani Iyer, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, M. S. Subbulakshmi and Maharajapuram Santhanam. His brother, T. H. Subhash Chandran, also excelled in the field. The Ghatam rose to fame as a percussion instrument that required nimble fingers and strong stomach muscles to control the mouth of the pot.
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Musician Name: T. H. Vinayakram Birthday / Location: 11|08|1942/ Tamilnadu, India Main instrument: Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations: Padma awards and Sangit awards Best Performance: Thaniavardhanam, Ethutanilachi and Vinayaka Other Information: /