Published 16:04 IST, September 8th 2019

US Open 2019: Murray and Mattek-Sands defend the mixed doubles title

Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands won the US Open mixed doubles crown on Saturday at the Arthur Ashe Stadium against Chan Hao-Ching and Michael Venus.

Reported by: Ankita Chakraborty
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Reigning champions Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands defended ir mixed doubles crown at US Open on Saturday. y won against opponents Chan Hao-Ching from Taiwan and New Zealand's Michael Venus. event took place at  Arthur Ashe Stium in New York. Murray and Mattek-Sands completed a successful title defence, with a 6-2, 6-3 win. 

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US Open championship 

Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands are British-American pair that rushed through last five games of opening set. Giving duo an early push, Murray kcked off a backhand volley winner. second set started with four successive breaks. However, both Murray and Mattek-Sands kept ir cool and dominated ir way through last three games of match. This happened to be third consecutive mixed doubles win for Jamie Murray. This win established him as a Brit force to be reckoned with as he becomes first man to win three successive US Open mixed doubles title. Bethanie Mattek-Sands who suffered a knee injury at Wimbledon two years ago took to Instagram to celebrate her win. 

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incredible duo Murray and Mattek-Sands were incredibly emotional post US Open win. Murray led  crowd into singing 'happy birthday' for his mor who was seated in support box. Mattek-Sands, teary-eyed graced her win. She cried again, elated when questioned about her win post knee injury. Murray h earlier won this title with Martina Hingis back in 2017. 

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Nal, who is on a 10-match winning streak is all set for US Open 2019. He is all geared up to face  Russian player Daniil Medvedev. Nal is currently pursuing his fourth US Open title. Medvedev, on or hand, is first Russian man to compete in Grand Slam since Marat Safin.

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(Inputs from AP)

12:07 IST, September 8th 2019