NYT writes about badminton star Sania Mirza Nehwal, corrects error

A New York Times article ‘misidentifying’ athletes Sania Mirza and Saina Nehwal, thinking they were one and the same, became a hot debate on social media on Tuesday after a Reddit user shared a screen grab of the gaffe.

A New York Times article ‘misidentifying’ athletes Sania Mirza and Saina Nehwal, thinking they were one and the same, became a hot debate on social media on Tuesday after a Reddit user shared a screen grab of the gaffe.

A NYT year-in-review article published on December 30 hailed ‘badminton and tennis player Sania Mirza’

The error appeared in an article titled “11 stories of female athletes who made their own rules in 2015” which listed eleven big-time female achievers in sports in 2015.

The year-in-review article published on December 30 hailed ‘badminton and tennis player Sania Mirza’ as ‘an example of Indian women athletes excelling on international stage’.

A screen-grab of NYT article which ‘misidentified’ athletes Sania Mirza and Saina Nehwal. (Reddit user MalayDesai)

The news website later issued a correction saying “The athletes Sania Mirza and Saina Nehwal were misidentified in an earlier version of this article”.