India's Sania Mirza on Saturdayclinched her second doubles title of the season after shecombined with partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands to defeat NadiaPetrova and Katarina Srebotnik in the title clash of the DubaiDuty Free Tennis Championships, here.
The unseeded Indo-American duo prevailed over theRussian-Slovenia combo 6-4 2-6 10-7 in a tightly-contestedfinal of the USD 2,000,000 hard court event.
The match lasted for one hour and 32 minutes.
After a rather easy victory in the first set, theeventual winners were made to struggle as Petrova andSrebotnik fought back strongly to take the second set.
Sania and Bethanie, however, sealed the issue in theirfavour by winning the crucial third set.
The two players had won the Brisbane International lastmonth to make a superb start to the 2013 season.
This was Sania's 16th championships wins in doubles, andshe also has one single title win.
Both the pairs had two aces each but Petrova andSrebotnik, interestingly, committed just one double faultcompared to three by the Indo-American duo.
As far as first service was concerned, the runner-upteam's winning percentage was 68 compared to the winners' 62per cent.
However, in the second service, Sania and her partner'swinning percentage was 53 compared to the runner-up's 41 percent.
Sania and Bethanie had to work hard for points as theiropponents fought well throughout.
The total points won were 63 by Sania and Bethanie evenas their opponents fell short by just one point.