Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina cruise to women's doubles title

ByReuters

Updated 16/07/2017 at 15:25 GMT

Russians Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the Wimbledon women's doubles title for the first time on Saturday with a crushing 6-0 6-0 victory over the pairing of Taiwan's Hao-Ching Chan and Romanian Monica Niculescu.

Russia's Elena Vesnina (R) and Russia's Ekaterina Makarova (L) hold up their winners' trophies after they beat Taiwan's Chan Hao-Ching and Romania's Monica Niculescu of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships

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[Wimbledon highlights are live on Eurosport and Eurosport Player at 10pm]

The second-seeded Russian pair have now won three of the grand slam events in doubles following their triumph at the French Open in 2013 and the US Open a year later.

The final lasted 54 minutes and the Russians, runners-up at the All England Club in 2015, had to save just two break points in the entire match against the pairing playing in their first season together.

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