India's Sania Mirza and Zimbabwe's Cara Black have beaten Chinese Taipei's Chan Hao-Ching and America's Liezel Huber 4-6, 6-0, 11-9 in the doubles to win the WTA Toray Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo.
There were a staggering seven breaks of serve in the first set but Sania Mirza and Black came back strongly to win the second set 6-0, forcing a match tie-break to decide the title.
In the third set too, Mirza and Black saved two match points, trailing 7-9 at one point, to win the deciding tiebreak 11-9.
This is the Indian's 18th Grand Slam title and Cara Black's 56th.
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