Sunday, July 6, 2014

Stosur and Zimonjic win Wimbledon mixed doubles title

15th seeds Sam Stosur and Nenad Zimonjic won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title today when they defeated 14th seeds Chan Hao-Ching and Max Mirnyi in the final. Stosur won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title once before, in 2008, with partner Bob Bryan. Today's victory completed Zimonjic's mixed doubles Career Slam.

The wheelchair doubles final was a repeat of last year's, only the outcome was different. Jordanne Whiley and Yui Kamiji defeated Jiske Griffioen and Aniek Van Koot 2-6, 6-2, 7-5. Whiley and Kamiji also won the Australian Open and the French Open earlier this year.

The new junior champion is Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia. The unseeded Ostapenko defeated 8th seed Kristina Schmiedlova 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 in the final. Ostapeno hit a total of 40 winners, which is around 39 more than we usually get from a junior competitor. The 17-year-old is currently ranked number 484 in the world.

Tami Grende and Ye Qiu Yu won the doubles championship. They defeated Marie Bouzkova and Dalma Galfi 6-2, 7-6 in the final. Both teams were unseeded.

2 comments:

Todd.Spiker said...

"Ostapeno hit a total of 40 winners, which is around 39 more than we usually get from a junior competitor."

Haha... it's so funny because it's so true! :D

Diane said...

It was shocking--in a good way!