Nestor, Srebotnik triumph in doubles

Canadian Daniel Nestor and Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik won the Australian Open mixed doubles title when they beat Australian Paul Hanley and Taiwan's Chan Yung-Jan Sunday.

The second seeds needed a deciding match tiebreaker to win the final 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 at Rod Laver Arena, where officials closed the roof as temperatures soared close to 40 deg C (104 F) on the hottest day of the tournament.

Hanley and Chan started well, breaking serve in the third game of the match, but their opponents won six of the next seven games to take the first set.

MELBOURNE, AFP