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![]() Griffioen now has five AO doubles titles ( she won three w/ Esther Vergeer from 2006-08), while van Koot has one additional win in Melbourne other than her two titles with Griffioen. #1-seeds Jiske Griffioen & Aniek van Koot took home their second AO title as a duo (w/ 2013) with a 3 & 2 win over #2 Diede de Groot & Yui Kamiji. also on Friday, the wheelchair doubles champions were crowned. They'll next play Abigail Spears & Juan Sebastian Cabal, straight sets winners over fellow unseeded duo Elina Svitolina & Chris Guccione ( Australia's last chance for a title) in the other semi. and are through to the mixed doubles final #AusOpen /KQbgRf7MUQ- #AusOpen January 27, 2017 After claiming Australian Open (2009) and Roland Garros (2012) titles with Mahesh Bhupathi, she last won at the U.S. The win gives Mirza the opportunity to play for a fourth career slam MX crown. This was Mirza/Dodig's third straight 3rd set super-TB win, and they even saved four MP in the QF vs. in the mixed semifinals, #2-seeded Sania Mirza & Ivan Dodig won a 10-5 3rd set tie-break to eliminate Sam & Sam (Stosur & Groth). Maja Chwalinska & Iga Swiatek later on Friday. If she'd reached the final, Andreescu would have been trying to become the latest to sweep the girls singles & doubles titles in Melbourne, a feat accomplished no less than six times since 2003 ( '03 Strycova, '06 Pavlyuchenkova, '11 Mestach, '12 Townsend, '13 Konjuh &'14 Kulichkova), as she's still set to compete in the girls double final with Carson Branstine vs. Both Martina Hingis (1993-94 RG, '94 Wimbledon) and Belinda Bencic ('13 RG & Wimbledon) picked up titles during their junior careers. Masarova now gets the chance to become the first Swiss to take the AO girls crown, but she'd hardly be the first from Switzerland rack up multiple junior slams. Andreescu, who'd been playing with a big wrap on the left leg all week, took a medical timeout after the set, then saw Masarova run away with the 3rd, winning at love. But the Swiss teen, who reached a tour-level semifinal in her WTA debut last fall in Gstaad, took the breaker 7-5 to force a deciding set. After getting to within two points of the final at 30/love, Andreescu was broken by Masarova to force a TB, Andreescu fell behind there by a 3-1 score before getting things to 4-4. But but couldn't do the same with more on the line vs. #1-seed Rebeka Masarova ( who'd tried to challenge on SP, only to be told, "no challenges on this court). ![]() ![]() The Canadian, looking for a chance to join Genie Bouchard as the only Canadians ('12 Wimbledon) to win a girls slam title, had served out the 1st at 6-4 vs. The other semi nearly ended about the same time as the first, as #7 Bianca Andreescu got a late break in the 2nd set and served for the match at 6-5. #TeamUkraine - ? #AUSOpen /KWc8ONu14J- UKR Tennis Portal January 27, 2017 Kostyuk, 14, reached the Grade 1 Traralgon final last week, and she'll now try to become the third Ukrainian girl to become a junior slam singles champ, with the most recent being Elina Svitolina in Paris in 2010. In the first semifinal to finish, #11-seeded Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine defeated #16-seeded Hordette Elena Rybakina, jumping out with an early break lead in the 1st, then getting a late break in the 2nd to finish off a 6-1/7-5 win. the girls singles finalists were determined on Friday, and just when it looked like one player would be in the final, well, she suddenly wasn't. ![]() It's the fourth slam crown for Safarova & Mattek-Sands, who now stand just a Wimbledon title away from a Career Doubles Slam as a duo. They've done it! and overcome a one set deficit to win the women's doubles! #AusOpen /CZH2Ucty2W- #AusOpen January 27, 2017 the first title of this Australian Open was delivered in the women's doubles final on Friday with #2-seeded Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Lucie Safarova combining to defeat #12 Andrea Hlavackova & Peng Shuai 6-7(4)/6-3/6-3 to claim their second AO title in the last three years. #AusOpen #sleepisfortheweak /ymEF1xRmhF- #AusOpen January 26, 2017 When you're so hyped for Sistersfinal Saturday. ![]()
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