NEW YORK — Anna Danilina and Harri Heliovaara received the U.S. Open combined doubles championship Saturday, the first-time companions defeating top-seeded Americans Jessica Pegula and Austin Krajicek 6-3, 6-4.

The pair got here collectively simply earlier than the match and shortly clicked, each choosing up their first Grand Slam titles.

“I didn’t know you two weeks ago. Now I know you very well,” Heliovaara, a local of Finland who ranked within the high 10 of males’s doubles earlier this 12 months, instructed Danilina within the trophy ceremony after the match.

Pegula, ranked No. 3 in singles, hasn’t been previous the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam in singles and misplaced within the 2022 French Open girls’s doubles remaining with American Coco Gauff. The teen was subsequent on Arthur Ashe Stadium to face Aryna Sabalenka within the girls’s remaining.

Pegula and Gauff will share the No. 1 spot within the new girls’s doubles rankings on Monday.

Danilina, who's from Kazakhstan and received an NCAA title on the University of Florida in 2017, was in her second Grand Slam remaining. She and Beatriz Haddad Maia misplaced within the Australian Open girls’s doubles remaining in 2022.

With members of the Kazakhstan tennis federation within the stands watching, Danilina and Heliovaara edged forward after they broke Krajicek’s serve for a 5-4 lead within the second set. Heliovaara served it out, leaping in celebration after the ultimate level.

Pegula and Krajicek have been making an attempt to turn out to be the primary all-American workforce to win the U.S. Open combined doubles title since Melanie Oudin and Jack Sock in 2011.

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