Sania Mirza added yet another feather to
her much-decorated cap as she won the WTA Tour Finals with partner Cara
Black – the biggest title in tennis
outside of the four Grand Slams and the Olympics. Sania Mirza and Black
may have just about survived in their first two matches. The
Indo-Zimbawe pair saved one match point against Spears/ Kops-Jones and
three matchpoints against Peschke/ Srebotnik, but they thrived in the
final against defending champions Shuai Peng/ Su-Wei Hsieh. Sania Mirza/
Black dropped the first game of the match, but then reeled off 12 games
in a row, to win 6-1, 6-0 in just one hour.
The win is worth $500,000 in prize money
for the duo and 1,500 ranking points for each player and completes a
brilliant three-month run for the Indian in which she also won the US
Open mixed doubles title, th Asian Games
mixed doubles gold and women’s doubles bronze besides the season-ending
WTA Championships. Sania will partner Hsieh next year as Black is
uncertain of her playing schedule for 2015. The Indian has firmly set
her sights on the elusive Grand Slam women’s doubles title and the World
No. 1 ranking.
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