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Sania becomes top ranked doubles player with Charleston title
Charleston, April 12
Sania Mirza and
Martina Hingis won their third successive doubles title together,
bagging the Family Circle Cup tennis title on Sunday, 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."