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Venus And Serena Capture Second U.S. Open Doubles Title
posted 09/14/09
3:33 pm
The fourth-seeded sisters whipped the top-seeded tandem of Zimbabwe's Cara Black and American Liezel Huber 6-2, 6-2 at the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center. The final was staged on Monday after rain wreaked havoc on the schedule here over the weekend.
The American sisters now own 10 major doubles titles, including their first one in New York back in 1999. They've never lost in a Grand Slam doubles final and also captured this year's Wimbledon and Aussie Open titles.
Black and Huber were the defending U.S. Open champs, having beaten Aussie Samantha Stosur and American Lisa Raymond in last year's title bout.
The 29-year-old Venus and 27-year-old Serena will split $420,000.
Serena played her first tennis here after losing to Kim Clijsters in a controversial women's singles semifinal on Saturday night. Serena lost to Clijsters when she was penalized a point on match point after the powerful American berated a line judge for calling an untimely foot fault. Serena was serving at 4-6, 5-6, 15-30 when call was made. Earlier in that match, Serena was warned for a racquet violation after smashing her racquet on the court at Ashe Stadium.
An apologetic Serena, who was fined $10,000 following her profanity-laced tirade on Saturday, issued a statement on Monday.
"I want to amend my press statement of yesterday, and want to make it clear as possible -- I want to sincerely apologize first to the lines woman, Kim Clijsters, the USTA and mostly tennis fans everywhere for my inappropriate outburst," she said. "I'm a woman of great pride, faith and integrity, and I admit when I'm wrong. I need to make it clear to all young people that I handled myself inappropriately and it's not the way to act -- win or lose, good call or bad call in any sport, in any manner."
"I like to lead by example. We all learn from experiences both good and bad, I will learn and grow from this, and be a better person as a result."
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