Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic cruised past top seeds Barbora Strycova and Hsieh Su-wei 6-2 6-1 after 72 minutes with six breaks of serve to win the Australian Open for the second time and their overall doubles title as a team.
Babos and Mladenovic ended the 2019 season with a win in the doubles final at the WTA Fnals in Shenzhen where they dropped just four games in the final. They picked up where they left off by winning their second Australian Open doubles trophy in straight sets.
The first set started with a trade of breaks. From 2-2 Babos and Mladenovic won four consecutive games with two breaks of serve to clinch the opening set 6-2.
Babos and Mladenovic held serve in the first game of the second set before converting their fourth break point chance in a marathon third game.
Mladenovic and Babos did not drop a set in the tournament.
“I think the way we match together. It’s really tough to beat. Not only the connection we have tennis-wise, because I think our game really fit well, the emotional connsection would not be enough. This gives us an extra boost for every single match we play. We all have our ups and downs. We had it here, both of us. Still each match we went there and we gave our best and helped each other. At the end it turned out pretty solid because we went all the way without dropping a set. That actually never happened to us. That’s something new. The way we are together and the way we are just fitting together, it’s pretty much becoming unbeatable. We are best friends. Everything we do, we do it together”, said Babos.
