Melbourne, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) - Friday's women's doubles final at the Australian Open will pit 14th seeds Chan Yung-Jan and Zheng Jie of China against an unseeded team of American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Czech Lucie Safarova.
Wednesday's semifinals at Melbourne Park saw Chan and Zheng whip 13th seeds Michaela Krajicek of The Netherlands and Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-3, 6-2 and the 29-year-old Minnesota native Mattek-Sands and Safarova best a 16th-seeded German duo of Julia Goerges and Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-0, retired.
Zheng was an Aussie and U.S. Open doubles champ in 2006, while Chan was an Aussie and U.S. Open doubles runner-up in 2007.
The winning team here will split $575,000.
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