Martina Hingis reaches 2 doubles finals at Wimbledon

Wimbledon: Indian tennis player Sania Mirza equalled her best performance at Wimbledon by reaching the women’s doubles semi-finals of the lone grass court Major with Swiss partner Martina Hingis here.

Paes is a victor of eighth men’s doubles Grand Slam titles and seven mixed doubles.

This is Mirza’s maiden final here across all formats in seniors though she had won the girls’ doubles title at the All England Club 12 years ago with Russia’s Alisa Kleybanova. The Indo-Romanian pair were seeded ninth, but rallied gallantly to shock the three-time champions 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(9), 7-6(5) in a pulsating quarter-final match played for two hours and 34 minutes on Tuesday.

The final set turned out to be a battle of patience for both pairs as they held their respective services for 23 games.

Martina Hingis is back in a final at Wimbledon for the first time since 1998.

“Our last two matches were so tough, and we were losing in the third round all the time before this year, so we’re really happy to be in the final”.

The top seeds totally dominated both the sets.

The top-seeded pairing defeated the American duo of Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears 6-1 6-2 on Friday at SW19. 42 year old Leander, one the most decorated grand-slam winners in doubles circuit, has already won the Australian Open with Hingis in the last season.

Djokovic played down concerns about a left shoulder injury that twice needed treatment and insisted he would be ready for the final. In there, have no major finals except 2 semifinals at Australian open (2014) and this the Wimbledon 2015.

Novak Djokovic has taken the first set, in a tiebreaker.

Unfurling his majestic one-handed backhand whenever the opportunity arose, Gasquet broke back and matched Djokovic blow for blow all the way to the tie-break.

Djokovic was too good in the tiebreaker, however.

Earlier in the day, another Indian Sumit Nagal, partnering Vietnam’s Nam Hoang Ly, earned a straight sets victory to enter the boys’s doubles semifinals.