SANIA MIRZA OF INDIA BECOMES WORLD NUMBER ONE IN DOUBLES ON THE WOMEN’S TENNIS TOUR
SANIA MIRZA OF INDIA BECOMES WORLD NUMBER ONE IN DOUBLES ON THE WOMEN'S TENNIS TOUR
SANIA MIRZA ACHIEVES WTA WORLD NO.1 DOUBLES RANKING
· Mirza becomes first Indian woman to achieve the WTA World No.1 doubles ranking
· Newly-formed team of Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza wins 14-straight matches to capture three titles – Indian Wells, Miami and Charleston
· Hingis/Mirza are now No.1 on the Road to Singapore Leaderboard
ST. PETERSBURG, FL, USA – The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) today announced that India’s Sania Mirza will rise to the WTA World No.1 doubles ranking on Monday, April 13. Since the WTA doubles rankings were introduced on September 10, 1984, Mirza is the 33rd player to reach the top doubles ranking, the first from India and fourth from Asia, to do so.
In the last 52 weeks, which are used to calculate the WTA doubles rankings, Mirza has won seven doubles titles with three different partners: Portugal Open (Oeiras), Toray Pan Pacific Open (Tokyo) and the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global with Cara Black; Apia International Sydney with Bethanie Mattek-Sands; and BNP Paribas Open, Miami Open presented by Itau and Family Circle Cup with Martina Hingis.
In March this year, 28-year-old Mirza teamed up with nine-time Grand Slam doubles champion Martina Hingis, and the pair achieved instant success, winning 14-straight matches and claiming three successive titles. These results have propelled Mirza to the top of the WTA doubles rankings, and the team of Hingis/Mirza to the top of the Road to Singapore doubles leaderboard.
Mirza said achieving the WTA World No.1 doubles ranking was a dream come true. “When you start off as a child playing tennis, you dream of being No.1 in the world. It’s a dream for every person; very few get there. I feel extremely honored to be No.1, it’s something that I’ve worked for all my life. I hope this makes girls in India believe that anything is possible; we can achieve anything we want if we put our mind and body to it.”
Stacey Allaster, WTA Chairman and CEO, said: “It is a truly remarkable accomplishment for Sania Mirza to become the first Indian woman to reach the WTA World No.1 doubles ranking. Sania has attained many milestones throughout her successful career and this achievement is a fitting recognition of her talent, dedication and success. I am sure Sania will continue to create history and inspire our ever-growing fan base in India and the wider Asia-Pacific region.”
Among her notable achievements, Mirza was the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title; the first to reach the third and fourth rounds of a Grand Slam; the first to surpass $1 million in career prize money; and the first to win a Grand Slam title of any kind when she claimed the 2009 Australian Open mixed doubles title with countryman Mahesh Bhupathi. She holds a total of 26 career doubles titles, and three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
Only three other Asian women have achieved the WTA World No.1 doubles ranking: Japan’s Ai Sugiyama, China’s Peng Shuai, and Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh Su-Wei.
WTA PLAYERS TO HOLD NO.1 DOUBLES RANKING:
PLAYER WEEKS
FIRST DATE AT NO.1 Martina Navratilova 237
September 10, 1984 Liezel Huber 199
November 12, 2007 Cara Black 163
October 17, 2005 Lisa Raymond 137
June 12, 2000 Natasha Zvereva 124
October 7, 1991 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario 111
October 19, 1992 Roberta Vinci 110
October 15, 2012 Sara Errani 87
September 10, 2012 Paola Suarez 87
September 9, 2002 Gigi Fernandez 80
March 4, 1991 Helena Sukova 68
February 5, 1990 Jana Novotna 67
August 27, 1990 Virginia Ruano Pascual 65
September 8, 2003 Samantha Stosur 61
February 6, 2006 Pam Shriver 48
March 18, 1985 Ai Sugiyama 45
October 23, 2000 Martina Hingis 35
June 8, 1998 Lindsay Davenport 32
October 20, 1997 Gisela Dulko 24
November 1, 2010 Peng Shuai 20
February 17, 2014 Flavia Pennetta 18
February 28, 2011 Julie Halard-Decugis 14
September 11, 2000 Anna Kournikova 10
November 22, 1999 Kveta Peschke 10
July 4, 2011 Katarina Srebotnik 10
July 4, 2011 Serena Williams 8
June 7, 2010 Venus Williams 8
June 7, 2010 Corina Morariu 7
April 3, 2000 Hsieh Su-Wei 5
May 12, 2014 Kim Clijsters 4
August 4, 2003 Larisa Neiland 4
January 27, 1992 Rennae Stubbs 3
August 21, 2000 Sania Mirza 1
April 13, 2015
Topics: Doubles, India, Martina Hingis, Sania Mirza, Tennis News, Wta
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