Errani and Vinci Improve to 20-1 at Grand Slams and Capture Aussie Open Doubles Crown
January 25, 2013 | By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The top-seeded Women’s Doubles team of Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci of Italy won the first Australian Open title of 2013, beating the unseeded Australian duo of 16-year-old Ashleigh Barty & Casey Dellacqua 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 for the women’s doubles title. Barty & Dellacqua broke the Italian pair in the eighth game of the second set, then held serve in the next game to force a third set. The Australian pair broke Errani and Vinci to start the deciding set, but the Italians recovered quickly and dominated the remainder of the match.
"In the third set we started to get nervous,” Vinci said. ”However, today we’ve proven we’re a really strong doubles team. Our strength is that we always play together. We went out there today with lots of grit, and we really wanted to win.”
Errani & Vinci now have 14 WTA doubles titles together and in the last 12 months, the duo are 20-1 at Grand Slams, the only loss being the quarters of Wimbledon to Andrea Hlavackova & Lucie Hradecka.
"Ash and I are going to continue to play a lot more together," Dellacqua said. "Hopefully, all those things from the match, we’ll learn from. The more we play together, I think the better we’ll be."
