The predominantly Muslim nation of Indonesia was looking forward to watching Sania Mirza play in the Wismilak International in Bali this week, but she had a short stay. Ekaterina Bychkova defeated her 6-3, 6-2 in the first round.
If this report in the Jakarta Post is accurate, Mirza is understandably not enjoying the most recent controversy over her clothing.
The 18 year old was buttoned down in Bali, wearing a white tennis shirt in place of her usual attire. She seemed tense in her postmatch press conference, praising the beauty of Bali at one point and then retorting that "you'd be writing something different if I'd won" when asked if her problem was that she had no plan B to change a losing game.
When asked to comment on the "Islam controversy", Mirza, who is Muslim, snapped, "I don't want to talk about religion" and walked out of the room.
All a matter of interpretation by the reporter though.
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