New York (AFP)

Germany's Laura Siegemund and Russia's Vera Zvonareva won the US Open in doubles on Friday, beating the Chinese-American pair of Yifan Xu and Nicole Melichar 6-4, 6-4 in the final.

Siegemund (32) and Zvonareva (36) thus win their first major title together.

They had never been associated before.

But Zvonareva had won the US Open in 2006 associated with the French Nathalie Dechy, and the Australian Open in 2012 associated with her compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova.

She then quit tennis to devote herself to her studies.

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