Bethanie Mattek-Sands, left, of the U.S. and Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic celebrate after defeating Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic and Peng Shuai of China in the women’s doubles final at the Australian Open tenni… .
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Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova win Australian Open women’s doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova enhanced their reputation as the dominant duo by winning the Australian Open women’s doubles final 6-7 , 6-3, 6-3 over Andrea Hlavackova and China’s Peng Shuai. It extended the pair’s unbeaten record to 12 matches at Melbourne Park – they won the 2015 doubles title, but didn’t play together last year because Safarova was ill.
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After winning the first two sets of his second-round match, Roger Federer had to really go to work in the third, recovering from 5-2 down and fending off two set points to defeat American qualifier Noah Rubin 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 . He held serve at love to force the tiebreaker and, after it got to 3-3, reeled off the last four points to clinch the match in 2 hours, 4 minutes.
Canadaa s Eugenie Bouchard advances at Australian Open with win over Peng Shuai
Canadian Eugenie Bouchard is back in the third round of the Australian Open for the first time in two years after defeating China’s Peng Shuai 7-6 , 6-2 on Wednesday. Bouchard, who reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in 2014, finally closed it out after Peng saved three match points on the Canadian’s serve at 5-1 in the second set.
(Australian Open) Peng Shuai stumbles
Eugenie Bouchard is back in the third round at Melbourne Park for the first time in two years, defeating China’s Peng Shuai 7-6 , 6-2. Bouchard, who reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in 2014, finally closed it out after Peng saved three match points on the Canadian’s serve at 5-1 in the second set.