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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Tennis: Unseeded Pairs Make Final

French-Italian pair Nathalie Dechy and Mara Santangelo will face Spanish partners Nuria Llagostera Vives and Arantxa Parra Santonja in the KIA Motors Doubles final after their third consecutive straight sets victory and their second in a row at 6-2 6-4.

Dechy has won two Grand Slam singles titles, both at the US Open – 2006 with Vera Zvonareva and the following year with Dinara Safina.

They beat the American pairing of Julie Ditty and Carly Gullickson, who led in the second set before the Europeans reeled off a string of games. Neither pair of finalists has dropped a set so far and both pairs eliminated seeds early.

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