Ques: Recently India’s Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis broke a 22-year-old world record by winning how many women’s doubles match in a row?
(a) 27
(b) 28
(c) 29
(d) None of these
Ans (c)
Related facts:
- On 13 January 2016, India’s Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis broke a 22-year-old world record by winning their 29th women’s doubles match in a row en route to their entry into the women’s doubles final of the WTA Sydney International, in Sydney.
- The World No 1 pair beat the pair of Romanian Raluca Olaru and Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova by 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 in a closely-fought semifinal.
- With this they now surpassed the pair of Gigi Fernandez (Puerto Rica) and Natasha Zvereva (Belarus) who won 28 matches in a row during their successful pairing back in 1994.
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