Sania Mirza creates history by becoming the first female tennis player from India

Sania Mirza on Sunday (April 12) created history , becomes World No.1 in women’s doubles the first female tennis player from India to achieve the world number one rank in doubles, Sania took 470 points from the win to take her tally to 7965 as she jumped past Italy’s Sara Errani (7640) and Roberta Vinci (7640) to sit atop the ranking table.

Following her stupendous title win at the WTA Family Circle Cup with partner Martina Hingis, in Charleston, USA. The top-seeded Indo-Swiss pair blew away the challenge of Casey Dellacqua and Darija Jurak 6-0 6-4 in just 57 minutes in the lop-sided final of the USD 731,000 clay court event.