FINAL: (2) Boulter/Jorovic (GBR/SRB) v (1) Kalinina/Kulichkova (UKR/RUS)

Edit: Kalinina nationality corrected (see below) - not sure why I got it into my head that she was Latvian - maybe remembered they beat Freya and then confused Kalinina with Freya's partner 

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 23rd of January 2014 07:42:38 PM

Although we are used to success in grand slam doubles on the boys side, Katie is aiming to be the first Brit to win the girls doubles in a foreign Grand Slam I think (Lizzie Jelfs won at Wimbledon in 1994, whilst Heather Watson reached the French open final in 2009). Incidentally Kalinina is Ukrainian not Latvian

steven wrote:

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DavidC wrote:

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Although we are used to success in grand slam doubles on the boys side, Katie is aiming to be the first Brit to win the girls doubles in a foreign Grand Slam I think (Lizzie Jelfs won at Wimbledon in 1994, whilst Heather Watson reached the French open final in 2009). 

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I assume you're going by the Wikipedia list too? Or do you know there were no GB winners before 1980? I think junior slams were played long before that but I don't know when junior slam doubles started. I was going to play it safe with "first for 20 years" if she does it.

-- Edited by steven on Thursday 23rd of January 2014 07:53:16 PM

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Yes, I checked the Wiki lists - if you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_Open_champions#Juniors for example you can see that it claims the event only started in 1981 (similarly for the other slams), with just singles before then - and the lists are comprehensive if that is true, though I don't have independent confirmation

Ms Boulter and her partner lost the first set 6-4, but encouragingly have just come back from 15-40 down to hold to start the second.