Bethanie Mattek-Sands-Lucie Safarova wins Aussie women doubles title
The unseeded pairing of American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Czech Lucie Safarova won the Australian Open women`s doubles title Friday, their first Grand Slam success.
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Melbourne: The unseeded pairing of American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Czech Lucie Safarova won the Australian Open women`s doubles title Friday, their first Grand Slam success.
"This is our first tournament together and after this I`m sure that we`re going to be playing a few more this year," said a delighted Mattek-Sands.
They beat five seeds to clinch the title and in doing so became the first unseeded women`s duo to claim the Australian crown since Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva in 2012.
They were also the first new pairing to win a women`s Grand Slam title since Dinara Safina and Nathalie Dechy at the US Open in 2007.