Babos, Mladenovic win Australian Open women's doubles
Tennis - Australian Open - Women's Doubles Final - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2018. Hungary's Timea Babos and France's Kristina Mladenovic celebrate winning the Women's Doubles Final with the trophy after winning their match against Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. REUTERS/Edgar Su
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Hungarian Timea Babos and France's Kristina Mladenovic defeated Russian duo Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-4 6-3 to win the women's doubles title at the Australian Open on Friday.
Babos and Mladenovic claimed their first grand slam title as a partnership, denying the Olympic champion Russians a sweep of grand slam doubles crowns at Rod Laver Arena.
The win was Mladenovic's second major women's doubles title after she won the 2016 French Open crown with compatriot Caroline Garcia.
Tennis - Australian Open - Women's Doubles Final - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2018. Hungary's Timea Babos and France's Kristina Mladenovic celebrate winning the Women's Doubles Final with the trophy after winning their match against Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. REUTERS/Issei Kato
The Russians pushed hard to prise break points from Mladenovic as she served out the match but the French-Hungarian duo held firm to close out the match in one hour and 20 minutes.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by John O'Brien)
Tennis - Australian Open - Women's doubles final - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2018. Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France celebrate winning against Ekaterina Makarova of Russia and Elena Vesnina of Russia. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Tennis - Australian Open - Women's doubles final - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2018. Timea Babos of Hungary and Kristina Mladenovic of France pose with the trophy after winning against Ekaterina Makarova of Russia and Elena Vesnina of Russia. REUTERS/Toru HanaiTennis - Australian Open - Women's Doubles Final - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2018. Hungary's Timea Babos and France's Kristina Mladenovic with Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina after the match. REUTERS/Edgar SuTennis - Australian Open - Women's Doubles Final - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2018. Hungary's Timea Babos and France's Kristina Mladenovic celebrate winning their match against Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina. REUTERS/Edgar SuTennis - Australian Open - Women's Doubles Final - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2018. Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina during their match against Hungary's Timea Babos and France's Kristina Mladenovic REUTERS/Edgar Su
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