Indian tennis queen Sania Mirza has fuelled fresh rumours of a divorce with husband and Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik after she posted a cryptic message on her Instagram story on Wednesday (January 17, 2024).
The former tennis star and ex-Pakistan cricket team captain, who tied the knot in 2010, have reportedly been living separately for over a year now.
News of trouble in paradise started in 2022 after Shoaib Malik’s photoshoot with Pakistani actress and model Ayesha Omar went viral on social media and raised a lot of eyebrows in both India and Pakistan.
Sania’s latest post on Insta, has further added fuel to that fire.
“Marriage is hard. Divorce is hard,” reads the first line of the post shared by the 37-year-old, who is currently covering the Australian Open 2024 as a tennis expert.
The post further mentions how everything in life is “hard” and we just have to make wise choices to overcome the challenges that we face.
End of a fairytale?
Mirza and Malik have been tight-lipped about the status of their marriage, although their cryptic posts on social media have left fans concerned on several occasions in the recent past.
Malik changed his Instagram Bio in August last year from ‘Husband to a superwoman Sania Mirza’ to just “Father to One True Blessing”.
Mirza, meanwhile, removed all of her pictures with Malik from her social media accounts and is living in Dubai with her son Izhaan Malik Mirza. Malik moved back to Pakistan after the alleged separation.
Both have reportedly been co-parenting their five-year-old son, who was born in April 2018.
(The article is published under a mutual content partnership arrangement between The Free Press Journal and Connected to India)