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Mirza-Black beat Chan-Huber to win Pan Pacific Open title in Tokyo

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ANI Tokyo
Last Updated : Sep 28 2013 | 3:10 PM IST

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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First Published: Sep 28 2013 | 3:06 PM IST

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