Six-time Grand Slam champion and former World No. 1 takes on investment leadership role at UAE-based investment firm Terra-Invest
DUBAI, UAE
Terra-Invest today announced that Sania Mirza, six-time Grand Slam champion and former World No. 1, has joined the firm. In the role, Mirza will co-lead Terra-Invest’s activity across two of the firm’s high-conviction verticals: longevity and preventative health, and the
fast-growing sports and athletic performance economy.
Mirza will work alongside Terra-Invest’s founding partners on origination, diligence and portfolio value creation bringing an operator’s perspective to a portfolio the firm has been quietly assembling for several years.
Terra-Invest has been an active investor across both categories, with holdings including Smashers Sports, Shookra, The 2100 Club and Precision Diagnostics, among others. The two theses converge on a single idea: that human performance and human healthspan are becoming the same market.
From Centre Court to the Cap table
Mirza is among the most decorated athletes India has produced. She won six Grand Slam titles and in April 2015 became the first Indian woman to reach World No. 1 in any tennis discipline. She won more than forty WTA doubles titles over a career spanning nearly two decades, and was the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title.
She is a recipient of the Padma Shri, the Padma Bhushan, the Arjuna Award and the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna – India’s highest sporting honour. She retired from professional tennis in 2023 at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
Off the court, Mirza has built a successful second career as an entrepreneur, investor and institution-builder. She is the founder of the Sania Mirza Tennis Academy (SMTA), to give upcoming tennis players access to professional-grade coaching, facilities and pathways at home rather than abroad; infrastructure that did not exist when she came up through the game herself. SMTA has since produced hundreds of national-ranked juniors and remains one of the country’s most significant privately built sporting institutions.
She has also invested in and advised ventures across sport, media, health and consumer brands, and served as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia. She was also India’s Ambassador for the “Save the girl child” campaign.
Commenting on this new role, Sania Mirza, said “I spent twenty years treating my body as the asset. You learn quickly that recovery, diagnostics and prevention are not luxuries; they’re the whole game. What drew me to Terra-Invest is that they were building in this space before it became a headline. I’m here to identify opportunities, back them, and help them grow.”
