Leander Paes And Martina Hingis Win Mixed Titles Just 24 Hours After The Legendary Swiss Tennis Player Won Women's Double With Another Indian, Sania Mirza!
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis beat the Austrian-Hungarian pair of Alexander Peya and Timea Babos 6-1 6-1 in just 40 minutes, in the final at Centre Court of the All England Club.
Leander Paes grabbed hold of his 16th Grand Slam trophy, winning the mixed doubles event of the Wimbledon Championship with Martina Hingis following a dominating win over Alexander Peya and Timea Babos, in London on Sunday, July 12.
Seventh seed Indo-Swiss pair beat the fifth seed Austrian-Hungarian team 6-1 6-1 in the lop-sided summit clash which was over in just forty minutes. This was Paes' eight mixed double title and second with Hingis. Paes and Hingis had won the Australian Open early this year.
Paes has eight men's doubles crowns in his Grand Slam collection. The 42-year-old Paes' win capped an amazingly successful Wimbledon for India as the country took three titles this year. Sania Mirza won the women's double and Saumit Nagal won the junior boy's double trophy, NDTV Sports noted.
As far as Hingis is concerned it was her second title in as many days, having won the women's doubles with Sania. Overall it was 18th major title for Hingis and third in mixed doubles.
Hingis's excitement at winning her first Wimbledon title in 17 years in the ladies' doubles on Saturday night was such that she could not get sleep until 3am. Just less than 24 hours later, she and the Indian maestro Leander Paes took the mixed doubles crown, according to records on The Guardian.
With a combined age of 76 between Hingis and Paes, they were too clever for the crash-bang tennis of the fifth seeds Alexander Peya and Timea Babos as they raced to a 6-1 6-1 victory.
The moniker, "Swiss Miss" Hingis earned in the early part of her career was inappropriate on an evening where was involved in producing one of the most dominant performance on Centre Court of these entire championships.
Hingis, who took the ladies' doubles with her partner Sania Mirza said, "My body was hurting here, there and everywhere but the adrenaline got me back out there."
"So to also bring this title home was incredible."
Paes too added his own tribute saying, "Everyone knows what Martina has achieved over the years at Wimbledon. To come out there and do it back to back, the physical and mental effort that it takes to win two titles in the same week, is something really, really special."
Paes and Hingis literally toyed with Peya and Babos, who shockingly did not succeed at putting any resistance. Within no time, Paes and Hingis pocketed the first set as they just needed 19 minutes to nose ahead. Paes and Hingis broke Babos in the fourth game and Oeya in the sixth for a 5-1 cushion. Hingis served out the set when Paes smashed a volley winner.
The two kept the pressure on the Austrian-American combination right from the first game of the second set. Peya was unable to negotiate a Paes return at deuce to hand the seventh seeds grabbed the opportunity to break them.
Babos too couldn't handle a Hingis return giving the Indo-Swiss pair an early break. There was no stopping Paes and Hingis from there as they galloped to victory in less than one house.
Babos was unable to hold her serve even once and it was on her return that Paes hit a deft backward volley winner to close the contest.
