Melbourne: India's Sania Mirza said her baby had his own "entourage" and was waking her up at night as she heads into her first Grand Slam tournament as a mother at the Australian Open. Mirza, who will play doubles with Ukraine's Nadiia Kichenok -- fresh from winning in Hobart together -- said life on tour was a little different with one-year-old Izhaan. "My baby's entourage is bigger than mine now. That's the only way I'm able to give my 100 percent into training," Mirza said on Sunday. "It is a little more complicated.

He sleeps in the same bed as me still, so he wakes up a couple of times a night. It's basic things like that that you probably don't think about when you're not a mum. "It's things like that. I'm really lucky. I have a lot of help. My mum is there. My parents have been a great support. There's no way I would have done it without them." Mirza, who won the 2016 Australian Open doubles with Martina Hingis, joins a select band of players including Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters who have returned to tennis after giving birth.