US Open: China No 1 Zhang Shuai and Samantha Stosur crowned doubles champs
- Second slam win for 2019 Australian Open winners as veterans see off US teenagers Coco Gauff and Caty McNally
- ‘We will play together more,’ says Zhang, after they extend winning run to 11 matches and two wins from two slam finals
Zhang, 32, and 37-year-old Stosur won in three sets – 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 – to lift the trophy two years after they won the women’s doubles at the Australian Open.
This is their second grand slam victory as a pair, with Stosur a doubles champion in New York in 2005 and a singles winner in 2011.
The Chinese-Australian pair’s previous best at Flushing Meadows was when they reached the semis at the 2018 US Open but they came into this year’s tournament on the back of winning the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati after reuniting.
They extended their winning run to 11 matches, though the No 14 seeds did not have it all their own way as they dropped their first set of the tournament in New York when No 11 seeds Gauff and McNally bounced back with victory in the second set.