April 13, 2015
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Sania becomes top ranked doubles player

 

Martina Hingis (left) and Sania Mirza with the BNP Paribas Cup trophy at the awards ceremony. Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza won a 2-0 victory over Russia's Elena Vesnina and Ekaternia Makarova at the Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open women's doubles final on March 21, 2015.

Martina Hingis (left) and Sania Mirza with the BNP Paribas Cup trophy at the awards ceremony. Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza won a 2-0 victory over Russia’s Elena Vesnina and Ekaternia Makarova at the Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open women’s doubles final on March 21, 2015.

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won their third successive doubles title together, bagging the Family Circle Cup tennis title, enabling the Indian to create history by becoming the first woman from her country to be the World No.1 in doubles ranking.

The No.1-seeded Swiss-Indian duo beat Casey Dellacqua and Darija Jurak in straight sets for the title, 6-0, 6-4, missing two match points at 5-3 in the second set but closing it out a game later.

Sania is the first Indian woman to reach No.1 in tennis, in either singles or doubles, and just the fourth Asian woman to do it, after Japan’s Ai Sugiyama, China’s Peng Shuai and Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh Su-Wei.

“It’s a dream for every kid to be No.1 one day,” Sania said to the crowd at the trophy ceremony.

“I can’t think of a better person to do it with. When we came here we had one thing in mind, to get No.1, and she (Hingis) really helped me get there. She helped me through some tough moments this week,” she added.

“She’s just a great person and a great player. We also become the No.1 team in the world today with this. I hope we have many, many more tournaments and end the year on a high as well.”

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