Ace Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis are on winning spree, as the duo clinched its seventh title together by winning the Wuhan Open women’s doubles trophy. The top-seeded pair eased past the Romanian team of Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu 6-2, 6-3 in the title clash. Sania and Hingis had it relatively easy in the second round, quarterfinals and semi-finals after getting a first round bye in the tournament.
Sania and Hingis dropped serve three times and fought back from a 2-0 deficit in the second set to emerge triumphant in the summit clash today. With this win, the Indo-Swiss pairing has seven WTA doubles titles together this year — Indian Wells, Miami, Charleston, Wimbledon, the US Open, Guangzhou and Wuhan. They have won their last three tournaments and their last 13 matches without dropping a single set.
Wuhan
- Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province, People’s Republic of China, and is the most populous city in Central China.
- Arising out of the conglomeration of three cities, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, Wuhan is known as “Jiusheng Tongqu (the nine provinces’ leading thoroughfare)
- Because of its key role in domestic transportation, Wuhan was sometimes referred to as the “Chicago of China.”
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