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Sania-Martina secure top spot on leaderboard for WTA Finals
Charleston, April 11
Sania Mirza and
Martina Hingis secured the No.1 position on the doubles leaderboard for
the end-of-season tennis championships after defeating Spain's Anabel
Medina Garrigues and Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova in the
quarter-finals of the Family Circle Cup.
The No.1-seeded Hingis
and Mirza battled Medina Garrigues and Shvedova for an hour and 41
minutes for a 7-5, 4-6, 13-11 victory, fighting off a match point down
10-9 in the match tie-break and needing six match points of their own to
edge the Spanish-Kazakhstani defending champions on Friday.
Their
latest win ensured that they will overtake Australian Open champions
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova (currently No.2) and Russians
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (currently No.1) in the doubles
leaderboard, according to the Women's Tennis Association's (WTA)
website.
The end-of-season WTA Finals will be played in Singapore from October 25 to November 1.
Mirza, currently No.3 in the individual rankings for doubles players, will becom