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Sania wins first title of season with Bethanie

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SYDNEY: India’s Sania Mirza won her first title of the season and 23rd of her career when she and Bethanie Mattek-Sands shocked top-seeded Americans A.Spears and R.Kops-Jones in the summit clash of the Sydney International on Friday.
The unseeded Indo-American combine humbled the top seeds 6-3, 6-3 in just 69 minutes as Sania sounded a warning for the rivals ahead of the Australian Open.  It was fifth WTA title for Sania and Bethanie together. Sania and Bethanie saved seven break chances in each set and broke their rivals five times — twice in the opening set. They dropped serve once but kept the advantage of early break, which they got in the fourth game.
The Americans fought back well in the second set and were up 3-2 and 40-0 on Sania’s serve but the Indian came up with a big serve and fine ground strokes to thwart the danger.
Sania and Bethanie then broke R. Kops-Jones in the next game to put pressure back on their opponents.  Sania had to pair with the American since her regular partner Su-Wei Hsieh was playing singles qualifiers at the Australian Open.(AFP)

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