No sooner Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik announced about parenthood, congratulate messages and warm wishes started pouring in from their friends and family. Sania, who has friends in the tinsel town and cricketing fraternity from India and Pakistan accepted their wishes and thanked each one of them. It’s a well-known fact that Sania is quite close to Farah Khan and Shirish Kunder so it was obvious for them to know about her pregnancy but being very close to the tennis ace, they let out the secret.

Shirish congratulated Sania and Shoaib for embracing parenthood and even suggested her the name of the baby. Sania too had a funny reply to him. He took to Twitter and wrote, “Wow! Congratulations, @MirzaSania! If it's a boy, please call him Ghalib. Always wanted to meet Mirza Ghalib ❤️ #BabyMirzaMalik.”

Sania replied to the message and wrote, “Haha thanks Shirish.. will definitely that into consideration .. I’ve always wanted to meet him too 😂😂.”

Sania Mirza on Monday took to social media to announce her pregnancy. She shared a picture of the locker room. She captioned the picture, “#BabyMirzaMalik 👶🏽❤️”

#BabyMirzaMalik 👶🏽❤️ @daaemi

A post shared by Sania Mirza (@mirzasaniar) on

Not only Sania but also Shoaib Malik shared the image hinting about the baby. Interestingly, last month Sania at the Goa Fest 2018, she expressed her desire to take her family name, Mirza forward. She further added that Shoaib wants a daughter. "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," Sania said.

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