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Hingis, Mirza win third successive doubles title

Published: 03 Oct 2015 - 04:54 pm | Last Updated: 02 Nov 2021 - 03:20 pm
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Switzerland's Martina Hingis (R) and India's Sania Mirza (L) pose with their trophy after beating Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu in the women's doubles final at the Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, China.

 

WUHAN: Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza beat Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu in straight sets to win the Wuhan Open doubles final.

The winning duo dropped serve three times and had to fight back from a 2-0 deficit in the second set, but the top-seeds Hingis and Mirza won 6-2, 6-3.

The Swiss-Indian pairing have seven WTA doubles titles this year and have won their last three tournaments in a row - the US Open, Guangzhou and Wuhan - and 13 straight matches.

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