Mattek-Sands, Tecau win mixed doubles title
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Romanian partner Horia Tecau won the Australian Open mixed doubles title on Sunday.
Mattek-Sands and Tecau, seeded No. 8, easily won the match tiebreaker to earn a 6-3, 5-7, (10-3) victory over the fifth-seeded team of Russia's Elena Vesnina and India's Leander Paes.
After the second lasted nearly an hour, Mattek-Sands and Tecau took care of their opponents in the tiebreaker in just 12 minutes. They had six aces and 34 winners in the match.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}On Saturday, Paes and Radek Stepanek had ended the three-year Australian Open reign of Bob and Mike Bryan by beating the top-ranked twin brothers in the men's doubles final.
Instead of the Bryans, Mattek-Sands became the only American to win a title at this year's championship.