India's Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina won the women's doubles title at the 2011 BNP Paribas Tennis Open
India's Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina won the women's doubles title at the 2011 BNP Paribas Tennis Open, defeating eighth-seeded Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy 6-0, 7-5.
Sania and Vesnina have been Top 30 in singles and are hoping the doubles success will help boost them back towards that singles form.
"It improves certain areas of your game you don't use in singles," Sania said.
"People who do better in doubles go into singles and go to the net and use certain serves more. It has always helped me ufffd I guess I'm Indian, doubles comes more naturally to me!" she said.
