Sania, Hingis breaks world record

India's Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis today broke a 22-year-old world record by winning their 29th women's doubles match in a row en route to their entry into the women's doubles final of the WTA Sydney International. They won playing the pair of Romanian Raluca Olaru and Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 in the semi-final . The Sania-Hingis duo has now surpassed the pair of Puerto Rican Gigi Fernandez and Belarus' Natasha Zvereva, who won 28 matches on the trot. The pair has continued their performance from 2015 when they won 9 titles, which included the Wimbledon, US Open and the WTA finals.