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Hingis & Mirza Qualify For Singapore

Hingis & Mirza Qualify For Singapore

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

SINGAPORE – Doubles co-No.1s Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza have become the first players to qualify for the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global, the WTA’s crown jewel event where the world’s Top 8 teams will battle for a $7-million prize purse.

“Qualifying for the WTA Finals for the second year in a row with Sania is very exciting,” said Hingis, three-time WTA Finals doubles champion. “We enjoyed every moment in Singapore last year and hope to defend our title amongst the best doubles teams in the world.”

Mirza added, “Being able to achieve such great success together has been a dream come true. Having won the WTA Finals in Singapore last year as well as multiple tournaments in such a short period of time has been an unbelievable experience. I’m very much looking forward to competing in Singapore once again to try to make it three titles in a row.”

The collaboration between Hingis and Mirza began at the 2015 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, where they achieved instant success by taking the title and eight more by the end of the year, including the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global. This year, Hingis and Mirza have already claimed five titles – Brisbane International, Apia International Sydney, Australian Open, St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy and the Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome. As a result, the Swiss-Indian duo, known as “SanTina” to their fans, will attempt to defend their title in Singapore in their second appearance as a team.

Here is the current doubles Road to Singapore Leaderboard:

1. Martina Hingis (SUI) / Sania Mirza (IND)
2. Caroline Garcia (FRA) / Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
3. Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) / Lucie Hradecka (CZE)
4. Chan Hao-Ching (TPE) / Chan Yung-Jan (TPE)
5. Xu Yifan (CHN) / Zheng Saisai (CHN)
6. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) / Elena Vesnina (RUS)
7. Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) / Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP)
8. Julia Goerges (GER) / Karolina Pliskova (CZE)
9. Vania King (USA) / Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS)
10. Timea Babos (HUN) / Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)

The doubles competition will begin in Singapore on October 27 and is a single elimination contest between the Top 8 doubles teams of the 2016 season, all vying to hold the Martina Navratilova Doubles Trophy. Total prize money for doubles stands at $1.4 million with the champion team taking home up to $500,000.

Martina Hingis, Sania Mirza

Want to watch SanTina go for season-ending glory? Tickets packages for the WTA Finals are already available!

For the latest updates and insights, follow on Twitter (@WTAFinalsSG), Facebook (facebook.com/WTAFinalsSG) and Instagram (@WTAFinalsSG).

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Serena’s Stacks & Stacks Of Tennis Whites

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

LONDON, England – How many tennis outfits does one Grand Slam champion need? When you’re Serena Williams and going for your twenty-second career title at Wimbledon, the answer is a lot.

Earlier today, Serena gave Bleacher Report’s UNINTERRUPTED an inside look into her 2016 Wimbledon wardrobe, and it looks like the World No.1 is totally outfitted for a long fortnight.

Take a look at the video above and watch as Serena walks us through every piece of her extensive Wimbledon outfits – a different look for singles and for doubles – and see everything from her signature Swoosh headbands to her socks adorned with pom-poms.

However, there’s one crucial item noticeably absent from Serena’s Grand Slam ensemble: it looks like the defending champion is still missing her grass court shoes. Serena accidentally left them behind in the United States before flying out to London, but we’ve got no doubt that Nike will have them to her before the start of her Wimbledon campaign.

Despite the close look into every single piece in her London closet, Serena still held back on one item: you’ll have to wait until she steps out onto Centre Court at the All-England Club to see her Nike dress in action, though you can still get a sneak peak of it on her Twitter account.

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Muguruza Survives Early Scare

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

Last year’s runner-up Garbiñe Muguruza was made to work harder than expected in the opening round of this year’s championships, eventually subduing the fiery Camila Giorgi in three sets.

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Venus, Serena Serve Up Doubles Victory

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

LONDON, Great Britain – Serena Williams and Venus Williams imposed their doubles dominance against the No.11 seeded team of Andreja Klepac and Katarina Srebotnik in their Wimbledon doubles opener to advance 7-5, 6-3.

The sisters started out sluggish in the first set as Venus, who finished her two hour and twenty-four minute marathon singles match against Maria Sakkari about two hours earlier, was broken twice to allow the Slovaks to build up a hefty 4-1 lead in the first set.

After trading breaks for 5-2, the Williams sisters broke again after Klepac couldn’t get out of the way of a Serena volley fast enough. Venus held serve for the first time just as the two started to kick it into high gear.

With Srebotnik serving for the set at 5-4, Venus fired a forehand long to give the Slovakian team three set points but immediately redeemed herself by saving one with a lunging volley on the stretch. She ripped a backhand passing shot up the middle of the court to clinch the break and level the score 5-5.

Finally fired up, the Williams sisters dropped just one point in the next two games to take the first set 7-5. They continued their romp into the second set, where they broke twice to get ahead 4-0. Klepac and Srebotnik stopped the streak of nine games in a row by getting one of the breaks back, but it wasn’t enough to turn the tide as Serena and Venus took the match for their first Wimbledon doubles win in two years.

Up next for the sibling duo are the Belgian team of Elise Mertens and An-Sophie Mestach, who took out the all-American team of Nicole Gibbs and Irina Falconi, 7-6(3), 6-1.

Another sibling duo moves on as the No.3 seeded sisters Chan Yung-Jan and Chan Hao-Ching battled past Ashleigh Barty and Laura Robson in a comfortable straight sets, 6-4, 6-2.

They’re joined in the second round by the No.13 seeds Vania King and Alla Kudryavtseva after the Birmingham finalists came back to dispatch Nao Hibino and Alicija Rosolska 3-6, 6-1, 6-3, and by Darija Jurak and Anastasia Rodionova, who are fresh off of a title win at the Aegon International Eastbourne and downed the No.9 seeds Yifan Xu and Saisai Zheng 7-6(6), 2-6, 7-5.

More to come…

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People's Sunday Tickets On Sale

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

As a result of the first week rain delays the All England Club is putting on sale 22,000 tickets for the Middle Sunday. Find out how to buy them here…

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