Sania Mirza of India combined well with her Australian partner Anastasia Rodionova to get the better of H. Chan and Yung-ja Chan of Taipei 3-6, 6-1, 10-8 to win the women’s doubles final of the Pattaya Open tennis championship in Thailand on Sunday evening, according to information received here.

The top-seeded duo of Sania and Anastasia rallied well from a first-set deficit to down a fighting fourth-seeded combine of H. Chan and Y. Chan, who despite losing the second set easily, looked very good in the decider in a final which lasted 65 minutes.

This happens to be the 13th WTA title for the Hyderabadi Sania and also the first in the year 2012.

It may be recalled here that the 25-year-old Sania Mirza has entered the semi-finals of two events – mixed doubles and women’s doubles – in the last month’s Australian Open championship.

This victory comes as a huge morale-booster for the Indian tennis star, who is keen to stay in the world top 10 rankings in women’s doubles (she is currently ranked World No 7) to be in with a chance to compete in the 2012 London Olympics, ahead of a very demanding circuit wherein she has to defend lot of points as part of this objective.

source: http://www.TheHindul.com / Sport / by V.V. Subrahmanyam / Hyderabad, February 12th, 2012