Charleston: Sania Mirza on Sunday made history by becoming the first female tennis player from India to reach number one in the world in doubles ranking, after winning the Super title in the WTA Family Circle Cup with partner Martina Hingis here.
The couple Indo-seeded Swiss was amazed to challenge Casey Dellacqua and Darija Jurak 6-0, 6-4 in just 57 minutes at the last event unbalanced clay tennis USD 731,000.
Sania got 470 points from victory to take his tally to 7965 when he jumped past Sara Errani of Italy (7640) and Roberta Vinci (7640) to sit atop the leaderboard.
The graph official ranking will be released Monday.
Before Sania, Leander Paes and Mahesh only Bhuapthi had reached the higher range circuit dominated men’s doubles in the late 90’s.
Sania is also the country’s first player to win Grand Slam tournaments.
It is the third consecutive victory Sania title with Hingis and have not lost a game since joined forces in March. They won trophy in Indian Wells, which was his first tournament together and followed that with victory in Miami.
Sania and Hingis lost only three sets in 14 games spread over three tournaments.
They have already become the world’s number one team in the race to Singapore, the final season, where top-8 team competes in the final of the year.
Sania and Hingis walked past his rivals as they bageled in just 22 minutes to take the first set. They lost serve in the first game of the second set but broke back immediately.
If the pair Australian-Croatian unseeded had a chance to make a comeback, was to capitalize on the possibilities and does not help your cause by squandering two break in the fifth game of the second set as the winners opened a 4 -1 huge lead.
Casey and Darija but kept fighting and gradually reducing the margin.
Serving for the match, Sania and Hingis were broken, perhaps the enormity of the achievement made indian nervous. They kept their nerves and broke their opponents last in the tenth game to close the game in their favor.
