Mixed doubles title for Chan
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Chinese Taipei’s Latisha Chan and Croatian Ivan Dodig made it back to back Grand Slam successes, clinching the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in a 6-2, 6-3 win over Swede Robert Lindstedt and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia yesterday.
Chan and Dodig have become a powerful mixed doubles partnership in the past year having won two French Open titles and now Wimbledon.
The eighth seeds were always in control surging into a 5-0 lead in the first set.
Although Chan — who won the 2017 US Open doubles title with Swiss Martina Hingis — was broken serving for the set they broke back immediately to clinch it.
A break in the eighth game of the second set was all they required before celebrating by climbing up to their entourage’s box to hug them prior to being presented with the trophy.
For both 29-year-old Chan and Dodig, 34, it is their first Wimbledon title of any kind — the Croatian having lost in the men’s doubles final in 2015.
Earlier in the day, teenager Shintaro Mochizuki became the first Japanese to win a junior boys’ Grand Slam title, beating Spain’s Carlos Gimeno Valero 6-3, 6-2 in the Wimbledon final.
The 16-year-old backed his aggressive backhand throughout the contest and went on to win 17 of his 23 points at the net to seal victory in 61 minutes.
Mochizuki became Japan’s only second Grand Slam junior champion, following the footsteps of Kazuko Sawamatsu, who captured the Wimbledon and French Open girls’ titles in 1969.
Having begun playing tennis at the age of three, Mochizuki has fine-tuned his game under coach Natsuo Yamanaka at IMG’s tennis academy in Bradenton, Florida, where Japan’s current No. 1 Kei Nishikori also honed his game.
“I like coming into the net, yeah, a lot... My coach taught me, like, I’m good at that,” Mochizuki said of his adventurous serve-and-volley approach. “I just practiced a lot and improved with all matches.”
While Nishikori and reigning Australian Open and US Open champion Naomi Osaka have changed the landscape of Japanese tennis in recent years, Mochizuki found his role model in Swiss icon Roger Federer.
“I love watching him (Federer) on TV,” he added. “I don’t want to copy him, but I love watching him.”
On Saturday, 17-year-old Daria Snigur became the second Ukrainian player to win the girls’ singles title at Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-4 win over American Alexa Noel.
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