MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Daniel Nestor of Canada won the Australian Open mixed doubles championship, beating Chan Yung-jan of Taiwan and Paul Hanley of Australia 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 on Sunday.
Srebotnik and Nestor had nine break points against them and managed to save six of them, while Hanley and Chan were broken three times in five attempts.
“There were a lot of tight points there at the end, we were fortunate to win,” Nestor said.
It was the first Grand Slam title for the second-seeded pair as a team.
Nestor also won the mixed doubles title in Melbourne in 2007 with Elena Likhovtseva. He has also won six Grand Slam men’s doubles titles.
Srebotnik has won four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles playing with a variety of partners, most recently with Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic at Roland Garros last year.
Nestor thanked Srebotnik for playing with him in Melbourne.
“She’s already dumped me for the next Grand Slam for her regular partner,” he said, lightheartedly. “This was my one shot. I’m glad I took advantage of it.”