New York: Lisa Raymond won her sixth Grand Slam women's doubles title on Sunday, teaming with Liezel Huber for a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) victory over defending champions Vania King and Yaroslava Shedova in the US Open final.
The 38-year-old Raymond won her third US Open doubles championship, the last coming in 2005, when she teamed with Sam Stosur. Stosur played Serena Williams in the singles final later on Sunday.
Raymond and Huber saved match point trailing 5-4 in the second set, then got to the third-set tiebreaker.
After winning the point to go ahead 6-2, Huber started celebrating, thinking they had won.
Two points later, they actually did, and Huber, who teamed with Nadia Petrova last year, avenged a loss to the King-Shedova team in the 2010 final.
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