Vavassori-Errani win mixed doubles at US Open and make history

Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori in history: they are the first all-Italian mixed doubles pair to win the US Open. The two Italians beat the American pair Taylor Townsend and Donald Young in the final, beating them 7-6 7-5.

A match full of emotions in which the two Italians always controlled, winning the tie break (with a clear 7-0) and then making the decisive break at 6-5. For Sara Errani another exceptional victory after the gold medal in Paris in the women’s doubles with Jasmine Paolini. And it was precisely the 37-year-old from Bologna, the most titled tennis player in the history of Italian women’s tennis with 41 successes (9 in singles and 32 in doubles), the engine of the couple confirming what her partner said about her, that she is a tennis player of rare intelligence. Errani always kept the level high and consoled her partner even when he made trivial errors. The same goes for her opponent, Taylor Townsend, who tried to revive her partner Donald Young who often appeared to be in difficulty.

Before Errani and Vavassori, only three other Italians had gone so far in the mixed events of the various Majors, but always “separated”. In the history of the Slams, in fact, there have been two successes by Nicola Pietrangeli at Roland Garros in 1958, with the British Shirley Bloomer, and by Raffaella Reggi at the US Open in 1986, with the Spaniard Sergio Casal. Furthermore, there was also the final lost, the first ever in the Majors, by Uberto De Morpurgo, with the American Elizabeth Ryan, against the two French legends Suzanne Lenglen and Jean Borotra.