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Martina Hingis with her partner Sania Mirza after victory this morning. Aaron Favila/AP/Press Association Images

20 years after her first one, Martina Hingis is still winning Grand Slam titles

The Swiss player and her partner Sania Mirza cruised to victory at the Australian Open.

MARTINA HINGIS AND Sania Mirza have beaten the seventh seeded combination of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka to claim the Australian Open women’s doubles title this morning.

The pair extended their unbeaten run to 36 matches as they added the year’s first Grand Slam to the Wimbledon and US Open titles they won last year.

Indeed, since coming together last spring, the pair have won 12 titles and were in typically dominant form this morning, claiming a 7-6, 6-3 straight sets victory at the Rod Laver Arena.

Today’s win comes nearly 20 years after Hingis picked up her first Gram Slam title when she partnered Helena Suková to win the women’s doubles title at Wimbledon in 1996 when she was just 15-years-old.

It is her 21st Grand Slam title in total and comes in a year she hopes to add an Olympic gold medal to her trophy cabinet when she partners Roger Federer in the mixed doubles in Rio.

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    Mar 9th 2023, 8:55 PM

    How to Overcomplicate an already complicated sport! If it was up to me, no one would be sent off, the offending party would get put on report, sanctioned in the post match review and banned for the appropriate offence (no good behaviour bull). Meanwhile, I’d just let the players on the pitch sort it out amicably amongst themselves….

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    Mar 9th 2023, 10:38 PM

    @Mick O’Shea: Hopefully no one will realise that you are promoting the NRL approach (if I have understood you correctly). Ireland may no longer be a Catholic country, but there are a good few on here who think it heretical to believe we can learn anything from Rugby League.

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    Mar 10th 2023, 12:16 AM

    @Kevin Ryan: we spent years learning defensive systems from RL.
    Our national coach is also a league man.

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    Mar 10th 2023, 5:32 AM

    @Mick O’Shea: good to see player welfare is top of your agenda there Mick and letting the players sort it out amicably when one of them has possibly a brain injury. Top notch safety there.

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    Mar 10th 2023, 11:28 AM

    @Paul Power: How do you even get out of bed in the morning? Does your mother still dress you? Poor thing.

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    Mar 11th 2023, 7:26 PM

    @Mick O’Shea: ha ha ha poor comeback more like. I see you got lots of thumbs up for it

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