Wimbledon 2017: Ekaterina Makarova, Elena Vesnina serve up double-bagel to win women's doubles title

London: Olympic champions Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia won the Wimbledon women’s doubles title for the first time on Saturday with a crushing 6-0 6-0 victory over the pairing of Taiwan’s Hao-Ching Chan and Romanian Monica Niculescu. [caption id=“attachment_3819553” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Elena Vesnina (R) and Ekaterina Makarova (L) kiss their winners trophies after they defeated Monica Niculescu and Hao-Ching Chan to win the women’s doubles final at Wimbledon. AP[/caption] The second-seeded Russian pair have now won three of the grand slam events in doubles following their triumph at the French Open in 2013 and the US Open a year later. The final lasted 54 minutes and the Russians, runners-up at the All England Club in 2015, had to save just two break points in the entire match against the pairing playing in their first season together. The top-seeded duo of American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Czech Lucie Safarova had to withdraw before the second round after Mattek-Sands suffered a severe injury in a singles match.