Britain’s Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the United States successfully defended their mixed doubles title after they defeated top seeds Chan Hao-Ching and Michael Venus, 6-2, 6-3.
Murray and Mattek-Sands became the first mixed doubles duo to win back-to-back US Open titles since South African Kevin Curran and American Anne Smith in 1981 and 1982, an Agence France-Press report said.
Murray won the 2017 US Open mixed doubles crown with Martina Hingis, making him the first player to win three US Open mixed doubles titles in a row since Australia’s Neale Fraser from 1958-1960.
“We played amazing the whole two weeks, especially the semi-fianls and finals,” Murray said in the report. “I’ve always had fun on the court. Really happy to win again.”
Murray and Mattek, thus, brought home the $160,000 (Dh587,680) top prize.