There is no dearth of conversation when you are with her. Some people are like that. They could make a dictionary sound interesting. Just like Sania Mirza does! She has anecdotes to narrate, topics to discuss. Spend some time with her and you know she has been minted with special lustre. Her energy levels are lethal. The way she moves, the way she smiles, the way she attracts crowds to her like a flame does moths. Vrinda Prasad catches up with the tennis ace in Hyderabad and comes away enchanted.

Sharing some of the most romantic things Shoaib has done during their dating days and later, she gets back into her blushing teenage avatar and gleams, “When we were dating, on our first month anniversary, he sent me a pink stuffed toy with a little note (‘I can’t tell you everything that he wrote,’ she grins) which read, ‘I want to marry you, whether it is today, tomorrow, end of the year, next year or 10 years later, you let me know’.

Post marriage I can recollect he had given me a ring on our wedding, it was about 4 carat. And he wanted that ring just a few days before our first anniversary. He did not tell me why he wanted it. On the day of our first anniversary he gave it to me saying here is your ring. I opened it normally and put it on; then I was puzzled as it why looked bigger. So he had actually had the ring remade but it was seven and half carats now.”