London: Serbian Nenad Zimonjic and his Australian partner Sam Stosur emerged the Wimbledon mixed doubles champions when they beat Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Chinese Tapei’s Hao-Ching Chan 6-4, 6-2 at the All England Club Sunday.
It took less than an hour for the experienced No. 15 seeds Zimonjic and Stosur to triumph against Mirnyi and Chan.
The first blow came when they broke Mirnyi’s serve in the ninth game of the first set.
A double break in the second set, both on Chan’s serve, ensured Zimonjic and Stosur were not troubled on their way to victory.
It’s the second Wimbledon mixed doubles title for Stosur, having combined with Bob Bryan to triumph in 2008.
Qualifier Noah Rubin beat sixth-seeded Stefan Kozlov 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the junior boys’ title in an all-American final.
Unseeded Jelena Ostepanko of Latvia won the junior girls’ title with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 win over eighth-seeded Kristina Schmiedlova of Slovakia.
In boys’ doubles, No. 3-seeded Orlando Luz and Marcelo Zormann of Brazil beat top-seeded Kozlov and Andrey Rublev of Russia 6-4, 3-6, 8-6 in the championship match.
Tami Grende of Indonesia and Yu Yequi of China won the girls’ doubles title with a 6-2, 7-6 (5) win over Marie Bouzkova of Czech Republic and Dalma Galfi of Hungary.
