MIAMI (USA): Sania Mirza achieved another milestone by capturing his 25th career WTA doubles title as the ace of India continued his dream begins with Martina Hingis to win the trophy Miami Open, here on Sunday.
The Indo-Swiss head higher series pair overcame a slow start to win the title with a 7-5, 6-1 score against Russian second seed Ekaterina Makarova series and Elena Vesnina.
Sania and Hingis trailed 2-5 in the first set, but regrouped and turned the tables on their fierce rivals by reeling off eight straight games.
They had beaten the same Russian team to win the Indian Wells – their first title together.
It has been an absolute dream to start Sania and Hingis, as it has not lost a set since they began their partnership.
“Just try to follow it saying among themselves to enjoy the fight last week everything went very, very easy for us -. .. We did not lose more than four games in a long series of here we were down, and we were panicking It was like ‘Oh, my God, we’re not playing well. ” Simply were not used to that, “Sania said after the game.
Hingis attributed the victory to advice provided by more Imran Mirza Sania during the match.
“Today the coach really turned him – his father came on the court,” Hingis said Sania.
“The most important thing is that we never stop believing that we are a great team. They played a great set to take us to that position, 5-2 down. Then just try to stay there and take our chances. We just built in every point, is what we did well last week too, “said the big Swiss, who now has the title 43 double ,.
With this victory, Sania and Hingis now number three of the nine road to Singapore doubles ranking will move.
In the ranking of individual doubles, Sania is now only 145 points to become world number one.
Sania Mirza took a giant step forward to become the world number one doubles for pocketing 1,000 ranking points after his win Super title in Miami Open with partner Martina Hingis.
Ranking of Sania remained at number three, but she closed the gap to only 145 points with world number one Italian Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci, which both have 7640 points each. (See also: Martina Hingis credited Sania Mirza’s father for his success Miami)
With their second straight title with Martina, Sania now sits at number three with 7,495 points.
Now Sania needs to win the Family Circle Cup, starting this week in Charleston, where she and Martina are seeded.
But the tournament is played on green clay and Sania with your partner comes into the event without practice in this area, which is slightly faster than the red clay.
However, Sania had won a title in Charleston in 2011 with Elena Vesnina.
Meanwhile, in the WTA singles ranking, Ankita Raina won a place to be at number 252.
In the ATP rankings, Somdev Devvarman still better singles player of India, at 171, a gain of five. Ramkumar Ramanathan was the second best choice at number 233.
He jumped 14 points on the stairs and was followed by Yuki Bhambri (251), which climbed six places above.
In the doubles player Leander Paes was the highest ranking at number 23 and was followed by Rohan Bopanna (24). Both players won two seats each.
