AP minister serves advice to Sania

HYDERABAD: After Shah Rukh Khan, it is now the turn of sports minister M Satyanarayana Rao to advise tennis star Sania Mirza to focus on her game.

Rao, who is known for his controversial statements, advised Sania not to get distracted from her game. "There are no dearth of players in the state and Sania Mirza is an example. But the upcoming tennis player should focus on her game and not get carried away by commercial endorsements," the sports minister told reporters on Sunday.

"My only advise to Sania is to make sport as her core focus," he said. The sports minister claimed that he would bring more funds from the Centre to take up various programmes in his department. "Being one of the senior Congressmen in the country, I will use my clout to get more funds from the Centre," he said.