Nathalie Dechy and Vera Zvonareva won the U.S.
Open women's doubles title Sunday, beating Dinara Safina and
Katarina Srebotnik 7-6 (5), 7-5.
It's the first Grand Slam championship for both France's Dechy
and Russia's Zvonareva, who were playing in only their fourth
tournament together and second major.
Russia's Safina and Slovenia's Srebotnik held three set points in
the opener, leading 5-4 and love-40 on Zvonareva's serve. But
Dechy-Zvonareva won the next five points.
The eventual champions trailed again in the tiebreaker before
taking its last four points.
In the second set, Srebotnik got broken while trailing 6-5 to end
the match after one hour 46 minutes.
© The Canadian Press, 2007
