{"id":28482,"date":"2016-08-28T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28482"},"modified":"2016-08-28T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T03:57:12","slug":"sania-mirza-monica-niculescu-beat-chuang-bondarenko-to-win-connecticut-open-women-s-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28482","title":{"rendered":"Sania-Monica beat Chuang-Bondarenko to win Connecticut Open women\u2019s doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-28481\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sania-Mirza-tennis.jpg\" alt=\"Sania Mirza tennis\" width=\"250\" height=\"164\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sania-Mirza-tennis.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sania-Mirza-tennis-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Connecticut:<\/strong> Indo-Romanian pair of Sania Mirza and Monica Niculescu defeated Chia-Jung Chuang and Kateryna Bondarenko to win the 2016 Connecticut Open women&rsquo;s doubles title, here on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>In the finals, Mirza and Niculescu defeated Chuang and Bondarenko 7-5, 6-4 to claim their first Connecticut Open title as a team, while Mirza collected her third.<\/p>\n<p>The duo survived a tough battle against Chuang and Bondarenko, who were equally impressive in their tournament run. Following a 7-5 first set, Mirza and Niculescu won a tightly contested frame, winning the set 6-4 en route to winning the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in the semifinals against Andreja Klepac and Katarina Srebotnik, Mirza and Niculescu were on a back-foot after losing the their first set of the tournament, 2-6. The duo stormed back in the second set to win it 6-3. However, it was a tough third set for the Indian-Romanian pair as they were stretched to the tiebreaker, before finally winning it 10-8 to book a finals berth.<\/p>\n<p>They had defeated Darija Jurak of Croatia and Anastasia Rodionova of Australia in straight sets 6-1, 6-4 in the quarter-final of the $ 761,000 Connecticut Open.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Agnieszka Radwanska captured her first Connecticut Open title on Saturday afternoon, defeating Elina Svitolina in the finals. In the final, Radwanska opened with a dominant 6-1 first set, winning 85 percent of her first serves. The second set was a back-and-forth affair, featuring several breaks of serve and a tiebreaker. However, the World No. 4 owned the tiebreaker, utilizing her phenomenal shot making to move past Svitolina 6-1, 7-6(3) and capture her first Connecticut Open title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-28481\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sania-Mirza-tennis.jpg\" alt=\"Sania Mirza tennis\" width=\"250\" height=\"164\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sania-Mirza-tennis.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sania-Mirza-tennis-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Connecticut:<\/strong> Indo-Romanian pair of Sania Mirza and Monica Niculescu defeated Chia-Jung Chuang and Kateryna Bondarenko to win the 2016 Connecticut Open women&rsquo;s doubles title, here on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>In the finals, Mirza and Niculescu defeated Chuang and Bondarenko 7-5, 6-4 to claim their first Connecticut Open title as a team, while Mirza collected her third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17598,17575,466,17619,17597,15178,266,12894],"class_list":["post-28482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis","tag-chia-jung-chuang","tag-connecticut-open","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-indo-romanian-pair","tag-kateryna-bondarenko","tag-monica-niculescu","tag-sania-mirza","tag-tennis-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sania-Monica beat Chuang-Bondarenko to win Connecticut Open women\u2019s doubles title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28482\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sania-Monica beat Chuang-Bondarenko to win Connecticut Open women\u2019s doubles title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Connecticut: Indo-Romanian pair of Sania Mirza and Monica Niculescu defeated Chia-Jung Chuang and Kateryna Bondarenko to win the 2016 Connecticut Open women&rsquo;s doubles title, here on Saturday. 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