Were you watching the tennis action Wimbledon? Serena Williams isn't the only American woman to come home with a Wimbledon title. 21-year-old Vania King won the women's doubles title Saturday with partner Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan: King-Shvedova win doubles over Zvonareva-Vesnina.
Vera Zvonareva endured the agony of losing not once but twice at the weekend as she followed up her defeat to Serena Williams in the singles final with loss in the women's doubles final.It genuinely seems like the pair didn't expect to win. More on Vania King here: Fairy-tale Wimbledon ending catches American Vania King by surprise. They apparently got some support from some very cool local ballet students: Dancing to the title.
Hours after losing to Williams, Zvonareva and fellow Russian Elena Vesnina were beaten by the American Vania King and Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 7-6, 6-2. Zvonareva, who lost her serve once in each set, was in tears before the second began and again after the match.
King and Shvedova are only the fifth unseeded pair to win the title since seedings began in 1927, and Shvedova is the first player from Kazakhstan to win a Wimbledon championship.
"I'm sure for both of us, it really hasn't gotten in our heads that we just won Wimbledon," King said. "But maybe tomorrow or maybe next week. So, yeah, I think, I mean, right now, I don't know what to say."
The women's doubles final was the tournament's first to feature two unseeded pairs since 1975.
