Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta claimed the womens doubles title at the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open
Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta claimed the womens doubles title at the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open
Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta claimed the women’s doubles title at the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open after prevailing over No. 3 seeds Nadia Petrova and Samantha Stosur 6-3, 4-6, 10-7 on Sunday afternoon in Miami.
“We were I think both of us nervous,” said Dulko. “We wanted to win the title bad. It was just a little bit of nerves in the tie-break. So I think we play good at the end. We maybe hit more first serves in. Maybe one or two less mistakes and we won the tie-break.”
The Argentine-Italian duo upset three seeded teams en route to the title, including No. 2 Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez in the second round and No. 4 Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs in the semi-finals.
Dulko and Pennetta, who were making their 15th main draw appearance as a team, have now won four titles together in six finals. They won the 2006 Bogota title on their partnership debut and also claimed a pair of titles in 2009 at Hobart and Bastad.
Dulko said: “It’s my first big tournament with Flavia. We won a few titles before, but this is the most important. It feels great. We enjoy a lot this week. We had such a tough draw.”
Petrova and Stosur finished as runners-up for the second straight tournament, having lost to Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik two weeks ago at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
