Friday, January 29, 2016

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2016, Melbourne



Women's Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (7) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 76(1) 63

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) l (5) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 57 67(4)

Sania-Martina lifts Australian open title in well fought match against Czech pair ... This is the third successive Grand Slam doubles title for Sania and Martina and their maiden Australian Open title as a pair adding to their Wimbledon and US Open title victories in 2015 ... Also Sania and Martina extended their unbeaten run to 36 with this title win.

In the first set from 1-all both pairs exchanged six breaks ... Czech pair broke Sania's serve in 9th game to lead 5-4 but this time also top-seed broke back for 5-all ... In tie-break Sania-Martina dominated for winning it losing a single point ... In the second set also Sania-Martina won 1st two games and then third-fourth for leading with double break, 4-1 ... Czech pair broke Saina in 6th game but again failed to lose their service game in the next, 5-2 ... Martina had a chance for finishing the match on her service game but our pair failed to hold ... In 9th game Czech pair saved 3 match points before Sania-Martina winning the match after breaking opponent's serve.

But in MXD, Sania fail to continue their winning momentum with Dodig ... They lose very close match against Sania's former [partners Vesnina and Soares.

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