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Sania, Mahesh provide double delight

New Delhi: It proved to be a double sundae for Indian fans with Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi lifting the women’s and men’s doubles titles, respectively, at the Pilot Pen tournament at New Haven, US.

Sania and her Italian partner Mara Santangelo, seeded third, crushed top seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-1, 6-2 in the women’s doubles final in a late night match on Saturday.

Top seeds Bhupathi and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia defeated fourth seeds Polish Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 6-3, 6-3, as reported in Sunday’s Late City edition.

Sania and Mara made short work of the Zimbabwe-South African pair to win the final in just 53 minutes in the $600,000 Tier II event, which was last in the tune-up to the US Open beginning in New York on Monday.

Huber held serve in the first game of the match but then Team Sania rolled through nine straight games, barely looking back en route to their straight-set victory over the world’s top team.

Playing in just their second event together, the Indian earned her seventh career tour doubles title and her fourth this year, while Mara won her sixth career tour doubles title, her fifth this year.

Bhupathi and Zimonjic, who claimed their first title in four tries at the Pilot Pen event, didn’t drop any sets. They were, however, put to a stern test in every single of their three matches leading up to the final of the $675,250 event.

Zimonjic praised Bhupathi, saying “Mahesh is one of the greatest doubles players. He has won the US Open twice and I hope I can win it once. I hope we continue with this form and maybe play even better. I think Mahesh had a really good summer… Winning Montreal and here.”

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