Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis Eye US Open 2015 Doubles Title
Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis will take on fourth seeds Casey Dellacqua of Australia and Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova in the US Open 2015 final.
- NDTVSports
- Updated: September 13, 2015 01:51 pm IST
Indian ace Sania Mirza and Switzerland's Martina Hingis are looking to add the US Open women's doubles title to their Wimbledon crown in New York on Sunday. (Click here for latest Tennis stories)
The top-seeded duo will take on fourth seeds Casey Dellacqua of Australia and Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova in the final. Shvedova, 28, had been due to get married on Saturday but has had to shelve those plans due to her surprise run to the championship match.
Sania and Martina, who are bidding for their second women's doubles Grand Slam title together, have played some of the flawless tennis so far at the Flushing Meadows. The Indo-Swiss pair is yet to drop a set in the tournament.
Thanks to Martina, Sania has achieved greater heights in her career. In April, Sania became the first Indian to be ranked world No. 1 in WTA's doubles rankings and then in July she won her first women's doubles Grand Slam.
She paired up with the Swiss star to win the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, defeating Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 5-7, 7-6(7-4), 7-5 in a thrilling final.
The Swiss legend, who won the US Open mixed doubles crown on Friday, is bidding for her fifth Grand Slam title this year. On Friday, Leander Paes and Hingis became the first team since 1969 to win three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. The duo had earlier won the Australia Open and Wimbledon together.