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LONDON -- Serena Williams is leaving Wimbledon with two trophies, teaming with her older sister Venus to win a womens doubles final that began a little more than 3 hours after the singles final ended Saturday.The American siblings won their sixth doubles championship at the All England Club and 14th as a pair at all Grand Slam tournaments by beating fifth-seeded Timea Babos of Hungary and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-4.Earlier Saturday, also on Centre Court, Serena collected her 22nd Grand Slam singles title with a straight-set victory over Angelique Kerber in that final.I had just enough time to change and get my ankles re-taped, Serena said about going from one match to the other. But there was so much adrenaline. I didnt want to cool down too much.Venus sat in the guest box during the singles final.Watching Serena earlier was so amazing, and I was so into that. And then you have to re-set yourself and say, `OK, weve got to play a match and were going to have to try to win, Venus said during a joint interview with the BBC after the doubles. So she brought the energy from Game 1 and that really brought me up, too.The Williams sisters also won doubles titles at Wimbledon in 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009 and 2012. Each time, one or the other also won the singles championship, with Serena doing it in 2002, 2009 and 2012 in addition to this year.Theyre now 14-0 in major doubles finals. But they were unseeded this time because they play doubles so infrequently, and their most recent Grand Slam title before Saturday had come four years ago at the All England Club. Until playing at the French Open in May, they hadnt even entered a doubles draw at any major tournament since 2014.Theyre planning to compete in doubles, in addition to singles, at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics next month. They already have won three gold medals in doubles, at the 2000, 2008 and 2012 Summer Games.When they were asked during the BBC interview which one is in charge of their doubles team, Serena immediately pointed toward Venus and said with a laugh, Shes definitely the boss.And Venus said: Well, Im the older sister, so it kind of falls on me. But (there are) different times on the court that we both take over. So whatever the team needs, it kind of happens organically. Thats the best kind of team.Shvedova, who lost to Venus in the singles quarterfinals this week, was trying to win her third Grand Slam doubles title, after teaming with Vania King for trophies at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2010. Babos has never won a major doubles trophy; she was the runner-up with Kristina Mladenovic at Wimbledon in 2014.In mens doubles, Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert defeated Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 7-6 (1), 6-3 to win their first Wimbledon title. It was the first all-French Grand Slam mens doubles final of the Open era.The victory gives Mahut a happier memory from the grass-court tournament where he lost the longest match in tennis history, 70-68 in the fifth set against John Isner in the first round of singles in 2010.We talk a lot about this match already. Im very proud of it, Mahut said, referring to the contest that lasted more than 11 hours, spread over three days. But now its something different. Now I can come in the press conference as a Wimbledon champion. Its great.This is the second major title together for the top-seeded team of Mahut and Herbert, who won the U.S. Open last year.Theyre only the second pair of Frenchmen to earn the doubles trophy at the All England Club in the Open era, which began in 1968. Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra won Wimbledon in 2007.Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin won the 2014 French Open doubles championship.Mahut knows Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin rather well, having won ATP doubles titles with each of them in the past. Mahut and Benneteau even had success together as teens, collecting seven junior doubles titles in 1999.---Follow Howard Fendrich on Twitter at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich Cheap Wholesale Nike Sb Shoes . Rousey will put her perfect 8-0 record and hardware on the line against another undefeated fighter, 7-0 Sara McMann in the main event of UFC 170, which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas Nevada on February 22nd. Cheap Nike Sb Shoes Australia . But Bourque, who has missed three games with a lower-body injury, wont be in the lineup when the Habs travel to Buffalo to take on the Sabres on Wednesday. http://www.cheapnikesbaustralia.com/ .25 million option on reliever Jose Veras. Cheap Nike Sb Australia . 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But theyve won two in a row for the first time since the Nationals series.A victory Wednesday would mark their first series victory against the Diamondbacks, who have taken five of the last six series and 14 of the last 25 games.To accomplish that task, the Brewers will hand the ball to their de facto ace, right-hander Jimmy Nelson.Nelson is still working to get over a midseason hiccup; he opened the year 5-3 with a 2.88 ERA in his first 11 starts but has gone 1-5 with a 4.21 ERA over his last nine.He showed signs of improvement in his first start after the All-Star break, spinning seven scoreless frames in a 9-1 victory at Cincinnati on July 16 but Nelson was his own worst enemy his last time out.He allowed a leadoff home run to Dexter Fowler and was charged with his third throwing error of the season in a 5-2 loss to the Cubs.Only two of Nelsons four runs were earned; they came on four hits and three walks over five innings of work.Defensively, he kind of made a couple of mistakes that hurt him, Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. But I thougght his stuff was good.dddddddddddd A leadoff homer to Fowler, but I think you make a couple more plays and you dont give up two runs.Nelson had thrown only 80 pitches when he gave way for a pinch-hitter.In a different circumstance, he certainly stays in that game and keeps going, Counsell said. I felt like just all game we had to take shots to score when we could.It will be his first career appearance against the Diamondbacks, who will send right-hander Archie Bradley to the mound for his 24th start of the season and is on an upswing of late, going 1-2 with a 3.18 ERA in his last three starts.Bradley allowed three runs in his last outing, a 6-2 loss to the Reds last Friday in Cincinnati. All three runs came in the first inning and Bradley scattered two hits and three walks -- one intentional -- over his final four innings of work.I think theres only one inning out of my last three starts where I went the whole inning out of the windup, Bradley said. Thats a lot of stress, a lot of high-pressure situations.Its the walks. They say if youre going to play with fire, youre eventually going to get burned. Tonight I did. Time after time, I keep putting myself in bad situations.Bradley has never faced the Brewers in his career. ' ' '
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