Posted at 8:20 a.m., Friday, September 7, 2007
Tennis: Aspelin, Knowle win U.S. Open men's doubles
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Julian Knowle of Austria won their first Grand Slam title today, beating Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic 7-5, 6-4 in the U.S. Open men's doubles final.This was only the third major doubles event for the Aspelin-Knowle pairing. This is their first year together.
Dlouhy and Vizner also lost in the French Open final.
"The last two days, Julian and I have been playing great," Aspelin said. "I felt a little nervous coming out here."
They won $400,000 for taking the title.
Knowle was competing in his second Grand Slam doubles final — he and Nenad Zimonjic lost in the 2004 Wimbledon title match.
