Mirza, Hingis to fight for 7th title together in Wuhan final

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis entered the final of the Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan on Friday to give themselves a chance to win their seventh title together.

Updated on: Oct 2, 2015, 22:17:18 IST

PTI | By HT Correspondent, Wuhan, China

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The top-seeded Indo-Swiss duo of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis entered the final of the Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan on Friday to give themselves a chance to win their seventh title together.

A file photo of Sania Mirza, left, of India and Martina Hingis of Switzerland during the women’s doubles final of the 2015 US Open. (AFP Photo)

Mirza and Hingis easily overcame the challenge of fourth-seeded Chinese Taipei duo of Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan 6-2, 6-1 in just 53 minutes.

They won 53 of the 88 total points played and converted five of the 10 break points they earned in a lopsided affair to set up a title clash with the unseeded Romanian pair of Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu.

Camelia Begu and Niculescu defeated Czech Republic’s Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 6-4, 1-6, 10-8.

The Indo-Swiss pair earlier defeated the fifth-seeded American pair of Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears 6-2, 6-2 in the quarter-finals.

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