Venus Williams followed up her singles championship victory with a 6-2, 6-2 victory in doubles alongside sister Serena over Lisa Raymond of the United States and Samantha Stosur of Australia.
Virginia Wade, my favorite commentator, said that of all the doubles matches featuring Serena and Venus that she has seen, this was the first match where they played pure doubles as a team rather than scintillating singles tennis on a doubles court.
Quite a feat only hours after the grueling emotions of a Slam singles final against each other.
This is the third time, 2000 and 2002 previously, that they've won the doubles title. All three times, one of them has also won the singles title.
If theirs isn't among the greatest stories in the history of the sport - of all sports - I don't know what is.
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