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Friday January 29, 2010

The Williams sisters wins the double titiles at the Australian open 2010

Black - Huber started the game well but got broken and from that moment they never could catched up with the Williams sisters.

The Williams sisters won the match 6-4, 6-3.

Below is more in dept informations about both teams

HEAD TO HEADS: Serena & Venus Williams lead 2-0

2009 WIMBLEDON GRASS O SF SERENA & VENUS WILLIAMS 61 62

2009 US OPEN HARD O F SERENA & VENUS WILLIAMS 62 62

CARA BLACK (ZIM) / LIEZEL HUBER (USA)

? Cara Black and Liezel Huber achieved the joint world No.1 doubles ranking in November 2007 and have not relinquished it since. They have won their first 13 matches this year (including this week), capturing titles at 2010 Auckland and 2010 Sydney

? This will be Black’s 9th career Grand Slam doubles final, winning titles at 2004 Wimbledon (w/Stubbs), 2005 Wimbledon, 2007 Australian Open, 2007 Wimbledon, 2008 US Open (all w/Huber); and runner-up at 2000 US Open (w/Likhovtseva), 2005 Roland Garros (w/Huber) and 2009 US Open (w/Huber)

? Huber is playing her 8th career Grand Slam doubles final, having won 2005 Wimbledon, 2007 Australian Open, 2007 Wimbledon, 2008 US Open (all w/Black); and runner-up at 2004 Wimbledon (w/Sugiyama), 2005 Roland Garros (w/Black) and 2009 US Open (w/Black)

? Serena/Venus have defeated Black/Huber twice: SF at 2009 Wimbledon and F at 2009 US Open. Black has faced the Williams sisters head-to-head on three other occasions, losing to them at 1999 San Diego (w/C.Cristea) and 2000 Wimbledon (w/Selyutina), and advancing courtesy of a walkover at 2000 US Open (w/Likhovtseva). Huber is 0-4 inlifetime meetings against the Williams sisters. Aside from losses at 2009 Wimbledon and US Open, Huber lost to the Williams sisters two other times, both in 1998: at the Australian Open (w/De Lone) and Oklahoma City (w/Golarsa)

? During the 2009 US Open, Black achieved her 600th career doubles victory, while Huber is 2 wins shy of the 600 mark

? Black and Huber combined to win the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships in 2007 and 2008

SERENA WILLIAMS (USA) / VENUS WILLIAMS (USA)

? Venus and Serena Williams have won 4 of the last 6 Grand Slam doubles titles and in their first 17 Grand Slam appearances, have won 10 doubles titles

? Venus and Serena Williams, along with Lisa Raymond, are the only active players to have completed the career doubles Grand Slam (2001/2003/2009 Australian Open, 1999 Roland Garros, 2000/2002/2008/2009 Wimbledon, 1999/2009 US Open); there are 10 others who have done it in the Open Era (Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova, Kathy Jordan, Anne Smith, Pam Shriver, Jana Novotna, Helena Sukova, Gigi Fernandez, Natasha Zvereva Martina Hingis)

? Venus and Serena are bidding for their 11th Grand Slam doubles title, and 4th here (having won it in 2001/2003/2009); in seven of their 10 previous Grand Slam doubles title runs one of them also won the singles title: 1999 US Open (Serena), 2000 Wimbledon (Venus), 2002 Wimbledon (Serena), 2003 Australian Open (Serena), 2008 Wimbledon (Venus), 2009 Australian Open (Serena) and 2009 Wimbledon (Serena)

? Venus and Serena are the third-most successful partnership in the Open Era in terms of Grand Slam doubles titles; the most successful was Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver (who won 21), followed by Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva (14)

? Venus and Serena enter the final with a 135-18 lifetime record together, winning 16 titles together (which includes 10 Grand Slams and two Olympic gold medals (2000, 2008); they are 16-1 in career doubles finals losing only at 1999 San Diego (to Davenport and Corina Morariu); they are 10-0 in Grand Slam doubles finals

? Venus has only played four times with other players, going 1-4 (0-1 with Chanda Rubin, 0-1 with Corina Morariu, 0-1 with Lisa Raymond, and 1-1 with Caroline Wozniacki to reach QF at 2008 Doha)

? Serena has only played twice with other players, going 5-1 (1-1 with Martina Navratilova to reach the quarterfinals of 2002 Tokyo [Princess Cup] and 4-0 with Alexandra Stevenson to win 2002 Leipzig the week later)