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Wimbledon 2024: Grant & Jovic claim girls' doubles title, Razeghi wins boys' doubles

Arthur Kapetanakis | July 15, 2024


Americans Tyra Grant and Iva Jovic, both 16, continued their fruitful doubles partnership by winning their second junior Grand Slam title of the year Sunday at Wimbledon. After claiming the Australian Open title and finishing runners-up at Roland Garros, Grant and Jovic were back on top in London with a 7-5, 4-6, 10-8 final victory against Britons Mika Stojsavljevic and Mingge Xu.

 

The second seeds did not lose a set across four wins in reaching the final, then rose to the occasion in a match tiebreak in the championship match.

Longtime partners Grant and Jovic have now won seven junior ITF titles together, including consecutive Orange Bowl crowns in 2022 and 2023.

 

"We've had a long time to figure out some pretty specific patterns and plans," Jovic said, as quoted on zootennis.com.

 

"The more matches we play, the more confidence we have," she added. "We've been here before. We've played a lot of match tiebreaks, a lot of tournaments we ended up winning where we could have lost first round. We're just used to coming down to the wire, and we cope with it well."

 

Grant is now a three-time junior Grand Slam doubles champion. She also won the 2023 Roland Garros title alongside fellow American Clervie Ngounoue, when Jovic was out injured.

Alexander Razeghi, 18, won his first junior Grand Slam title by partnering with Germany's Max Schoenhaus to claim the boys' doubles crown at Wimbledon. The unseeded champions completed their run with a 7-6(1), 6-4 victory on Sunday against the Czech team of Jan Kumstat and Jan Klimas.

 

Stanford commit Razeghi had previously reached the 2023 US Open junior doubles semifinals with Australia's Hayden Jones and the 2024 Roland Garros semis in his first event partnering Schoenhaus.

 

Playing just their third tournament together, Razeghi and Schoenhaus lost just one set in their five Wimbledon victories, when they upset top seeds Federico Cina and Maxim Mrva, 3-6, 7-5, 11-9, in the quarterfinals.

 

"I think we complement each other really well," said Razeghi, as quoted on zootennis.com. "He has the power and I have the placement. His weaknesses are my strengths and my  weaknesses are his strengths, and both of us at the net are really good, so that's the difference I think."

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