The number one doubles team in the world ended their 2008 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour season on a high note Sunday.
Cara Black and Liezel Huber won their tenth doubles title of the year at the season-ending championships in Doha, Qatar.
For the Zimbabwean/American duo, this was the perfect ending after an incredible season.
The pair, who had already secured the number one ranking weeks before arriving in Doha, won the Sony Ericsson Championships Doha 2008 after beating Kveta Peschke and Rennae Stubbs 6-1, 7-5 at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex. They were awarded a winner’s check of $375,000 dollars.
“It feels unbelievable,” Black said. “We really put it all on the line, so we were really happy with our outcome.”
Contesting their 12th final of 2008, Cara Black and Liezel Huber successfully defend the doubles title they won in Madrid in 2007; it is their 10th doubles title of 2008 and 22nd overall as a team.
“We enjoy playing with each other,” Huber said. “When you’re good at something, I think you enjoy it even more. We just really enjoy playing with each other.”
Black and Huber will finish 2008 co-ranked No.1 on the WTA Tour rankings. They achieved the same feat in 2007, when they became only the second team since the inception of computer doubles rankings in 1984 to end a season in that joint position (after Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur in 2006).
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