Sabalenka and Mertens joined forces to overcome Czech pair Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova 6-2 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Belgian-Belarusian duo dominated the 79-minute clash, proving sharper on returns and smarter with placement as they conquered their opponents in clinical fashion.<\/p>\n It's the second Grand Slam victory the pair have won together after they clinched the US Open title in 2019, while between them they've now conquered a women's doubles title at all four majors.<\/p>\n Mertens said a key to their success was ensuring they had fun – and that was on full display in Sablenka's post-match jig.<\/p>\n "I think it's good not to be all stressy all the time," Mertens said in the pair's post-match press conference.<\/p>\n "We have singles and that is pretty stressy already. Then we have doubles, so we try to make it fun.<\/p>\n "But, of course, when we're on court, we want to win."<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1362652473253625859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n Sabalenka was eliminated in the fourth round of the singles tournament when she lost 4-6 6-2 4-6 to 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams.<\/p>\n And Mertens also bowed out in the round of 16, falling 6-7 (5-7) 5-7 to fellow Czech Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aryna Sabalenka's celebration said it all. The Belarusian young gun and Belgian star Elise Mertens were ecstatic after sewing up the Australian Open women's doubles […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36557,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions\/36557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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