Martina Hingis has won back-to-back matches for the first time in her doubles comeback, with Tuesday's second round triumph alongside Sabine Lisicki at the Sony Open Tennis an especially dominant showing. In the first match of the seventh event Hingis has played since returning to the WTA last summer, she and Lisicki recorded an impressive straight set defeat of No.6 seeds Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka on Friday. But their success the rest of the fortnight appeared in question when Lisicki withdrew from her third round singles match on Saturday because of the flu. However, a few days off apparently did Lisicki some good, as after a slow start that saw her and Hingis go down an early break and lose six of the first seven points against Sorana Cirstea and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the German-Swiss duo won five straight games and only surrendered two more the rest of the way en route to a 54-minute, 62 61 victory. "Wow, after three days in bed and not leaving my room, we played great doubles and had fun," Lisicki tweeted. "Thanks for all the get-well-soon messages!" Interestingly enough, Hingis is currently working with Lisicki and has worked with Pavlyuchenkova in the past. She is now 21-3 here in doubles, including titles in 1998 and 1999 alongside Jana Novotna. Next up for Hingis and Lisicki are Anabel Medina Garrigues and Yaroslava Shvedova, who are the only other team left also yet to drop a set this fortnight.
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