FEATURE - Sleeker Mirza has eyes on world's top 20

Published: July 30, 2007, 2:48 am

Tags: tennis

By Matthew Cronin STANFORD, California (Reuters) India's Sania Mirza fancies her chances of cracking the world's top 20 despite a weary 6-3 6-2 loss to Anna Chakvetadze in the Stanford Classic final on Sunday. It was a breakthrough week for the 20-year-old from Hyderabad, in which she reached her first WTA Tour Tier II final and knocked off three top 25 players in succession: Tatiana Golovin, Patty Schnyder and Sybille Bammer. It was the first time Mirza had done so in her career and her memorable week helped her equal her career-high world ranking of 31. I believe in realistic goals, said Mirza, who won a lower grade WTA event in Hyderabad two years ago to become the first Indian woman title winner on the tour. From the beginning of my career, I could have said my aim was to be number one in the world and be the greatest player even, but I'm a practical person. That's

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