Makarova, Vesnina in Wimbledon women's doubles title rout

Russia's Elena Vesnina (L) and Russia's Ekaterina Makarova (R) celebrate winning against Taiwan's Chan Hao-Ching and Romania's Monica Niculescu during the women's doubles final on the twelfth day of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships Jul 15, 2017

Olympic champions Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia won their first Wimbledon women's doubles title on Saturday (Jul 15) with a 6-0, 6-0 rout of Hao-Ching Chan and Monica Niculescu.

In a 55-minute final, which followed a 4 hour 41 minute men's doubles championship epic, the second-seeded Russians collected a third Slam doubles title as a team.

They also won the 2013 French Open and 2014 US Open women's doubles crowns.

Saturday's rout of their Taiwan-Romanian rivals, playing just their second event together, was only the second time a women's doubles final at Wimbledon had been decided by a double-bagel scoreline.

Source: AFP