Huber- Raymond clinches 2011 US Open Doubles title

Monday, September 12th, 2011 at 11:56 am , filed under U.S. Open by Peter Johnson

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The two seeded teams that collided against each other to take home the crown on the Arthur Ashe Stadium of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center were Number 3 seeds Vania King besides Yaroslava Shvedova and the number 4 seeded American Liezel Huber with Lisa Raymond. Huber/ Raymond came out victorious by bouncing back from a set down with a 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(3) victory after two hours and 47 minutes.

However, the American duo break back in the following game, they then hold their serve to even the score at 3-3. Winning on their respective serves in the following three games the teams equalize the score at 4-4. In the ninth game King/ Shvedova hold serve and in the tenth as Huber/ Raymond are serving to stay in the match, the American and Slovak mix are looking to break their opponents to take the match. As King/ Shvedova send a thumping forehand down the line, they break to win the opening set 6-4.

Beating in the first set, the second set was again a blow for a blow, as the two teams’ survived mini breaks each, they constantly kept winning on their serves until Huber and Raymond finally pushed the set to a tie breaker. The head-to-head run between the two teams lost steam in the tie breaker as the American team clinched an early break to go 3-0 in the set. Although King/ Shvedova fought back to reduce the deficit to 2-4 before levelling it at five points each, they could not maintain their form. Reeling off two straight points, the Americans were able to clinch the tiebreaker 7-5 and bring the set score to event terms.

The American team managed to break their opponent twice early on to record a 4-0 lead.From there on the two teams won points on service with the Americans eventually serving out the set with a 7-3 tie breaker victory, to clinch the 2011 US Open.