Ace tennis player and India’s super athlete Sania Mirza and cricketer husband Shoaib Malik are expecting their first child in October 2018. The hotshot couple who have faced quite a few backlash during their wedding since they are from not-so-friendly countries completed eight years of marriage and made an adorable announcement on their Instagram accounts of their pregnancy. They shared a cute animated image of baby Mirza Malik which made their fans very excited. Now, the mom-to-be Sania was captured in really cool pics exercising and trying to keep fit while carrying the couple’s first child.

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Sania was seen doing some stretching exercises to keep fit during pregnancy. She looked her natural lissome self with no piled up weight. She also looked fit as a fiddle in the photographs that were shared on Instagram. The images were captioned as, “Trying to keep fit during pregnancy.” Sania’s effortless stretching will definitely give all the soon-to-be mommies major fitness goals.

Mirza also took a religious pilgrimage recently with husband Shoaib and family. Sania had been looking forward to making a comeback at the French Open but the decision was quickly overruled when the news of her pregnancy came up. According to reports and the picture that the couple had shared it seems that their child will take on the names of both of them. Sania had previously said, “Today I will tell you a secret. My husband and I have spoken about it and we have decided that whenever we have a child, the child will have Mirza-Malik as a surname and not just Malik. So that’s where we stand as a family including my husband. He actually wants a daughter.”

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Sania and Shoaib are based in neither India nor Pakistan but call Dubai as their home. Their love has stood the test of time as even though there have been numerous criticisms they have always managed to brush them aside and shower their love on each other.