Sania Mirza announces pregnancy

New Delhi [India] April 23 (ANI): Ace tennis player Sania Mirza has announced her pregnancy.

Taking to Twitter, she announced the arrival of "Baby Mirza Malik".

While speaking at a panel discussion on 'Gender Bias' in the on-going Goa Fest 2018 on April 08, Mirza announced that she will keep her child's surname as 'Mirza Malik'.

She expressed her wish to take her family's name, Mirza forward.

Mirza further said his cricketer husband and former Pakistan team skipper Shoaib Malik "wants a daughter".

On 12 April 2010, she married Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik in a traditional Hyderabadi Muslim wedding ceremony at the Taj Krishna Hotel in Hyderabad followed by a Pakistani wedding customs for a mahr of Rs. 6.1 million. (ANI)

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