Bid and grab chance to play with Sania

Bangalore: Tennis buffs will get a rare opportunity to play against Sania Mirza if they emerge the highest bidder in an auction for a noble cause.

Sania would play a game of Pro-Am tennis with the highest bidder on February 16, 2006 at the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA) Centre, where the 1,75,000 dollars WTA Bangalore Open Tennis Tournament is in progress.

KSLTA Honorary Secretary Sunder Raju said in a release here that ''the successful bidder gets to play a game with Sania in a ceremonial match, where Vijay Amritraj will be the Master of Ceremonies, before cameras that will capture the action live to take it to millions of sports lovers across the world.''

Stating that the bid money would go towards fulfilling KSLTA's mission of bringing tennis closer to rural children of Karnataka, he said one need not be a tennis player to play with Sania as two hours of training would be given to the successful bidder.

The bid, starting at Rs 99,000 on the ebay platform, had opened and would close on February 15 at 4 p.m.