Australian Open: Sania ‘Santina’ Martina lift the Women’s Doubles title

Known as the “Santina”, the top seeds broke their rivals twice in the first set, which lasted 27 minutes before routing the 13th seeds in the second set for a bagel.

No. 7-seeded Kerber led 3-0 before Konta went on a four-game roll to get back into the set. But the top seeds displayed great skills to break Hradecka’s serve again to make it 5-5.

Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza refuse to lose.

It was the 12th grand slam women’s doubles title for Hingis while the third for India’s Mirza, all of which have come with the Swiss in the a year ago.

Novak Djokovic has won the second set 6-2 of his semifinal against Roger Federer after taking the first 6-1.

The pair beat Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka, of the Czech Republic, 7-6, 6-3, adding to their victories in the Wimbledon and US Open competitions a year ago.

During their first stint together, the Czechs reached four major finals, walking away with the silverware at the French Open in 2012 and US Open in 2013.

Sania, 29, enjoyed the most sensational run, clinching eleven women’s doubles titles, including two Grand Slam titles.

In that which was a noticed experience, Mirza-Hingis kept their nerves to get the set 7-6.

This is their third consecutive grand slam after winning the Wimbledon and US Open a year ago.

“I feel like sometimes we struggle through the heat here in Australia, (but) we struggled through the rain”, Hingis said at the trophy presentations under a closed roof because of day-long inclement weather “But since I played that (singles) final you made three covered courts”. Old warhorses, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, have impressive wins on the doubles circuit.

Later, Sania and Croat Ivan Dodig, also seeded top, sailed past the unseeded Kazakh-Pakistani duo of Yaroslava Shvedova and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 7-5 6-2.

In the women’s singles summit clash defending champion Serena Williams is up against first time finalist German Angelique Kerber.