Sania Mirza leads ranking for second consecutive year!

Q.  India’s tennis champ Sania Mirza has retained the number 1 status in women’s doubles for which consecutive year?
- Published on 01 Nov 16

a. 2nd
b. 3rd
c. 4th
d. None of the above

ANSWER: 2nd
 
Sania Mirza leads ranking for second consecutive year!Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has retained the number one status in women’s doubles for the second consecutive year, despite failure to defend her WTA finals title with Swiss partner Martina Hingis in Singapore.
  • Defending champions Hingis and Mirza lost to Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova in the semi-finals of the WTA Finals Singapore on 29th Oct 2016.
  • Makarova and Vesnina defeated Mattek-Sands and Safarova to lift the doubles title on 30th Oct.
  • Sania has won a slew of titles including Australian Open with HIngis, Cincinnati Masters with Barbora Strycova.
  • Sania has split with Hingis following the WTA loss.
  • Only three tennis players – Black, Huber and Navratilova have had a longer consecutive stint at the top of the history of women’s doubles tennis.
  • Mirza celebrated her 80th consecutive week as the women’s doubles world number 1.

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