NEW DELHI, Aug 29: Indian tennis star Sania Mirza is confident of getting over her current injury crisis and bouncing back into the top 50 soon with the help of a new trainer.

Mirza, 21, slipped from a career-best high of 27 in August last year to 70 in the latest WTA rankings after an injury-plagued season in 2008.

“It is naturally very frustrating for her to miss tournaments,” Mirza’s father, Imran Mirza, said from the family base in Hyderabad on Friday.

“But she understands injuries are a tennis player’s professional hazard and part and parcel of a sportsman’s career.

“She is very positive and looking forward to bounce back soon,” he said.

Mirza injured her right wrist during the Indian Wells tournament in March and was forced to have surgery a month later.

She pulled out of the French Open in May-June, lost in the second round at Wimbledon and crashed out in the first round at the Beijing Olympics.

Mirza, who also withdrew from the ongoing US Open, has signed up trainer Amir Takla, a consultant with Tennis Australia.—AFP