Williams sisters complete slam in doubles
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June 5, 2010, Saturday
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SISTERS Serena and Venus completed a 'Williams slam' of four consecutive grand slam doubles titles when they beat Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik 6-2, 6-3 yesterday to win the French Open.
The Americans wrapped up victory in 73 minutes to win their 12th grand slam title together, adding the trophy to the ones they won at Wimbledon and the US Open last year and at the Australian Open in January.
The top seeds are only the third doubles partnership in the history of the women's game to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time.
They will become the top-ranked doubles pairing on Monday, making Serena Williams only the sixth woman to hold top spot in the singles and doubles at the same time.
The doubles title might take some of the sting away from the Williams' exits in the singles event. No. 1-ranked Serena lost in the quarterfinals, and No. 2 Venus lost in the fourth round.
Also, Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia rallied to win the mixed doubles title, beating Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan and Julian Knowle of Austria 4-6, 7-6 (5), 11-9 in tiebreak on Thursday.
Srebotnik and Zimonjic faced match point in the super tiebreaker, then won the last three points. Zimonjic saved the match point with an ace on his second serve and clinched victory with a volley.
"We were a little bit lucky," he said. "I don't know how we won today, really to be honest."
Srebotnik complimented Knowle and Shvedova during the trophy ceremony.
"Hopefully, next time you win," she told them, "but not against us."
Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor of Canada will play defending champions Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic and Leander Paes of India in the men's doubles final today.
Zimonjic and Srebotnik won the French Open mixed doubles in 2006 and were runners-up in 2007 and 2008. Srebotnik also won the title in 1999 with Piet Norval of South Africa.
The Americans wrapped up victory in 73 minutes to win their 12th grand slam title together, adding the trophy to the ones they won at Wimbledon and the US Open last year and at the Australian Open in January.
The top seeds are only the third doubles partnership in the history of the women's game to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time.
They will become the top-ranked doubles pairing on Monday, making Serena Williams only the sixth woman to hold top spot in the singles and doubles at the same time.
The doubles title might take some of the sting away from the Williams' exits in the singles event. No. 1-ranked Serena lost in the quarterfinals, and No. 2 Venus lost in the fourth round.
Also, Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia rallied to win the mixed doubles title, beating Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan and Julian Knowle of Austria 4-6, 7-6 (5), 11-9 in tiebreak on Thursday.
Srebotnik and Zimonjic faced match point in the super tiebreaker, then won the last three points. Zimonjic saved the match point with an ace on his second serve and clinched victory with a volley.
"We were a little bit lucky," he said. "I don't know how we won today, really to be honest."
Srebotnik complimented Knowle and Shvedova during the trophy ceremony.
"Hopefully, next time you win," she told them, "but not against us."
Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor of Canada will play defending champions Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic and Leander Paes of India in the men's doubles final today.
Zimonjic and Srebotnik won the French Open mixed doubles in 2006 and were runners-up in 2007 and 2008. Srebotnik also won the title in 1999 with Piet Norval of South Africa.
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