Woody wins another Grand Slam

[pies4ever]

woody would have to be 1 of the best doubles players of all time surely??


cheers bryan..!!

[Donny]

Woodbridge wins doubles
September 8, 2003

AUSTRALIA'S Todd Woodbridge and his Swedish partner Jonas Bjorkman today won the US Open doubles title with a three-set victory over popular Americans Mike and Bob Bryan.

Woodbridge and Bjorkman, the fourth seeds, recovered from a set down to beat the second-seeded identical twins 5-7 6-0 7-5 at Flushing Meadows.

The victory gave Woodbridge his 15th grand slam title and second of the season after he and Bjorkman also triumphed at Wimbledon.

[Donny]

Woodbridge hunts more records
September 9, 2003

TODD WOODBRIDGE has history at his mercy and a Grand Slam record to pursue after capturing his third US Open men's doubles title yesterday.

Woodbridge and Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman, the fourth seeds, recovered to beat the second-seeded American identical twins Bob and Mike Bryan 5-7 6-0 7-5 in the final.

The win gave Woodbridge his 15th Grand Slam title, from 19 finals, and second of the season after he and Bjorkman defended their Wimbledon title in July.

The record-setting Australian also drew level with John McEnroe with 77 career doubles titles, one shy of all-time leader Tom Okker.

With tournaments in Vienna, Madrid, Stockholm and Houston still to come for Woodbridge in 2003, he is likely to challenge Okker's long-held mark before the end of the season.

"The beauty for me now is I can pick and choose what I want to play and win," Woodbridge said after splitting a $US400,000 ($620,000) winners' cheque with Bjorkman.

He declared a new goal to become the first player to achieve two sets of Grand Slam titles with different partners.

Woodbridge had secured an Australian Open crown with Bjorkman, in 2002, and now needs to win with the Swede in Paris to have won all four majors with his "new" partner.

He had already made a sweep of the Grand Slams with retired long-time partner Mark Woodforde before teaming up with Bjorkman at the start of 2001. "Now we've got to win the French and try for a career Grand Slam. That's the next thing to look at," Woodbridge said.

The 32-year-old said the quest for another French Open was not on the agenda until he won again in New York.

"But now let's try to do that," he said.

No other player has won all four slams twice with different partners. Roy Emerson, who also collected 12 singles Grand Slam titles, came closest. Emerson won all four majors with fellow Australian Neal Fraser and three of the four with both Fred Stolle and Rod Laver.

Emerson won the Australian, French and US Opens with Stolle, but missed at Wimbledon. He won the Australian, French and Wimbledon crowns with Laver, but could not take a US Open.

Spain's Virginia Ruano-Pascual and Argentina's Paola Suarez denied Martina Navratilova her 59th Grand Slam title when they won the women's doubles.

The 46-year-old Navratilova and Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova lost 6-2 6-3.