Sania Mirza has become the first Indian woman to reach the number one ranking in the WTA doubles category. Mirza created history on Sunday and everyone rushed out to congratulate her stupendous performance. [caption id=“attachment_1635887” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
Sania Mirza. Reuters[/caption] She is the first woman tennis player from India to do so after winning the Family Circle Cup final partnering with Martina Hingis. The top-seeds beat Casey Dellacqua and Darija Jurak 6-0, 6-4 in 57 minutes in the finals of the clay court event. 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 make it to the top. Here are the tweets:
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