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| Thursday, January 25 |
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| Williams sisters roll into doubles final Reuters | |||
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Venus and Serena Williams
earned swift revenge over Martina Hingis on Thursday, teaming up
to beat their Swiss rival and her partner Monica Seles and reach
the final of the Australian Open women's doubles. The American sisters beat Hingis and Seles 7-5, 6-2 in their
semifinal showdown after Hingis had knocked them both out of the
singles to join Jennifer Capriati in Saturday's final. Hingis followed her victory over Serena in Wednesday's
quarterfinals by scalping Venus earlier on Thursday in their
semifinal. But the sisters' revenge in the doubles prevented Hingis
from reaching her fifth straight final with five different
partners. The Williams sisters will play Lindsay Davenport and Corina
Morariu in Friday's final after the American pair beat the
second seeded Australian Nicole Arendt and Ai Sugiyama of Japan
7-5, 6-2. Australia's Todd Woodbridge, who, along with Mark Woodforde,
formed half of the greatest doubles team in history, reached the
men's final with his new partner Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden, who
had won two previous Australian Opens with different players. They beat Australia's Wayne Arthurs and Yugoslavia's Nenad
Zimonjic 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 and will play Zimbabwe's Byron Black and
Germany's David Prinosil who defeated Americans Justin Gimelstob
and Scott Humphries 7-6, 6-1. | |
ALSO SEE Fernandez: Women's doubles final picks Hingis defeats Venus Williams to reach final Capriati upsets Davenport; Hingis clobbers Venus Defending champ Agassi back in Aussie final | |
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