Ashleigh Barty and CoCo Vandeweghe lift US Open women's doubles title

Ashleigh Barty and CoCo Vandeweghe won their first Grand Slam title together Sunday, fending off three match points to beat Australian Open champions Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic.

Published: 10th September 2018 05:41 AM  |   Last Updated: 10th September 2018 05:45 AM   |  A+A-

Ashleigh Barty and CoCo Vandeweghe

CoCo Vandeweghe, left, and Ashleigh Barty, of Australia, hold the trophy after defeating Timea Babos, of Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic, of France,in the women's double final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament,Sept. 9, 2018, in New York. (Photo | AP)

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NEW YORK: Ashleigh Barty and CoCo Vandeweghe won their first Grand Slam title together Sunday, fending off three match points to beat Australian Open champions Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic in the US Open women's doubles final.

Australia's Barty and America's Vandeweghe triumphed 3-6, 7-6 (7/2, 7-6 (8/6) in the fourth meeting between the teams this year.

It was a first Grand Slam title for Barty, who had reached the women's doubles finals at all four majors with Casey Dellacqua before her former partner retired.

She and Vandeweghe were in their first Grand Slam final together since teaming up for the first time at Indian Wells in March.

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Barty and Vandeweghe, who upset top seeds Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova en route to the final, saved two championship points in the 10th game of the second set to force the tiebreaker.

Babos and Mladenovic saved two match points in the 10th game of the final set as they forced the tiebreaker, giving themselves a third chance at 6-5 in the decider.

Barty and Vandeweghe saved it to earn a third match point of their own on Mladenovic's serve and the French player double faulted.
 

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