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szdaily -> Sports -> 
Babos, Mladenovic win doubles title
    2019-11-04  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

NO. 3 seeds Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic became the first team to successfully defend a WTA Finals doubles title in 11 years after they defeated No. 2 seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strycova 6-1, 6-3 to lift the Martina Navratilova Doubles Trophy in Shenzhen yesterday.

The Franco-Hungarian duo, who have gone undefeated this week and will thus collect the largest prize money check ever in professional doubles tennis at US$1 million, avenged their Wimbledon semifinal defeat to the Chinese Taipei-Czech duo to become the first back-to-back champions at the year-end finale since Cara Black and Liezel Huber in 2007-08.

Babos, who also took the trophy in 2017 partnering Andrea Sestini Hlavackova, becomes the first player to win a hat trick of WTA Finals doubles titles since Lindsay Davenport in 1996-98 alongside Mary Joe Fernandez, Jana Novotna and Natasha Zvereva.

In Saturday’s semifinal against No. 7 seeds Samantha Stosur and Zhang Shuai, Babos and Mladenovic got off to a slow start and were dominated in the opening set — but the Roland Garros champions flipped that script yesterday. Working in perfect harmony together, with winning volleys flowing from the Babos racquet in particular, Babos and Mladenovic conceded just four points behind their deliveries while breaking their opponents three times.

Chinese Taipei’s Hsieh and Strycova, meanwhile, displayed little of the form that had seen them rout No. 8 seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Demi Schuurs in the previous round: Strycova conceded the opening game on a double fault, while Hsieh was uncharacteristically slow to react on several occasions. (SD-Agencies)

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