U.S Open 2010: Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova win women's doubles title
Vania King from America along with partner Yaroslava Shvedova from Kazakhstan won the United States Open Women’s doubles title after defeating Nadia Petrova and Liezel Huber in a total of three sets on Monday. The final match score was 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Vania and Shvedova got the better of the second seeded duo in just a total of 20 minutes after the match resumed on Monday in New York.
Play opened with Vania serving at 4-5 during the third set of the match. It was quite a tricky situation for the American as Yaroslava normally served first during the start of their earlier matches.
Liezel and Nadia immediately secured a match point, however they couldn’t convert it into a set win. It was finally Shvedova who smashed a perfect lob to claim the title.
“It is kind of unbelievable for me. I don’t feel like we have won the title as it all happened so quickly today,” said Shvedova after the match.
Sunday was Yaroslava’s 23rd birthday so the duo also cut a cake when play was interrupted by rain in New York.
Yaroslava and Vania had teamed up to capture the doubles title at Wimbledon earlier this season, which was their very first major doubles title. They then entered Flushing Meadows as the sixth seeded pair to win the United States Open trophy.
Liezel, who was born in South Africa and became an American citizen in 2007, was in the quest to register her name as the eighth women in the open era to capture the women’s doubles as well as the mixed doubles crowns in a single season at the championship. She had earlier won the mixed doubles crown with Bob Bryan in the final of the mixed doubles battle in New York.
Huber has so far won a total of four major women’s doubles trophies in her career.
In other action on Sunday, Jack Sock did well to topple Denis Kudla in the final of the United States Open boys’ title in a total of three sets in New York. The final match score was 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
Daria Gavrilova defeated Yulia Putintseva in an all-Russian girls’ title battle. The final match score was 6-3, 6-2.
The 17-year-old Jack, who is a high school senior, is the first United States Open junior winner from America since Andy Roddick won it in 2000. Andy had dismissed Robby Ginepri in that final.
Sock said, “We are doing pretty well as far as the junior level is concerned. All of us are practicing hard on the courts and trying our level best to work on our weaknesses and play solid to show our talent to the entire world. Hopefully, we will get to the top level soon and the time is not that far away when the world will once again experience another America winning the majors.”
Jack has been playing under the supervision of Mike Wolf at a tennis academy in Kansas for the last six years. The American is now thinking of whether to go back to college or turn professional.
“I am unable to decide at the moment. All I know right now is that I am going to finish off this season and then see the level of my game as well as junior rankings before finally deciding on turning pro or not. My ultimate target in tennis is off course to become a pro and play at the highest levels of the game however at the moment I cannot say anything about it,” said Jack after his victory in New York.
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