Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova added the US Open women's doubles title to the Wimbledon crown they won in July yesterday in a final held over from Sunday due to rain.
Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova added the US Open women's doubles title to the Wimbledon crown they won in July yesterday in a final held over from Sunday due to rain.
The US-Kazak duo defeated second seeds Liezel Huber of the United States and Nadia Petrova of Russia 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4).
The final had been suspended due to rain at a crucial moment of the game on Sunday with King serving to level at 5-5 in the deciding set.
On resumption a Shvedova forehand winner down the line saved a match point for the sixth seeds and two games later it went down to a tie-breaker.
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King and Shvedova opened up an early lead in that and after securing two match points they clinched it with a perfect lob over Petrova.
