Sania Clinch Pan Pacific Doubles Title

Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova thrashed China’s Chen Liang and Zhaoxuan Yang to clinch the Pan Pacific women’s doubles in Tokyo, Japan.

Indo-Czech pair defeated the Chinese 6-1, 6-1 in just 51 minutes.

This is Sania’s 40th doubles title, of which 18 have come since the beginning of 2015.

She had earlier won the same title with Zimbabwe player Cara Black twice.

Earlier, Sania and Strycova won the Cincinnati Open by beating Swiss great Martina Hingis and Coco Vandeweghe 7-5, 6-4 in the summit clash.