WIMBLEDON, England - Vania King of the United States and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan never had set foot inside Centre Court, let alone played there, before the Wimbledon women's doubles final Saturday.
So the entire experience was a thrill, topped by becoming the fifth unseeded team to win the championship. King and Shvedova beat singles runner-up Vera Zvonareva and Elena Vesnina of Russia 7-6 (6), 6-2.
"I'm sure for both of us, it really hasn't gotten in our heads that we just won Wimbledon," said King, who is from California and now lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "But maybe tomorrow or maybe next week. So, yeah, I think, I mean, right now, I don't know what to say."
Chimed in Shvedova, the first player from Kazakhstan to win a Wimbledon title: "We're shocked."
It was the tournament's first women's doubles final between two unseeded pairs since 1975.
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The match was played a few hours after Zvonareva lost the singles final to Serena Williams 6-3, 6-2. The Russian was in tears before the second set of the doubles match began and again afterward.
Being out on Centre Court caused some shakiness early on for King and Shvedova, but they saved a set point in the tiebreaker and then pulled away.
"Our first time seeing it and first time playing on it," King said.
She noted that their coaches might have been "more nervous than we were" and that Shvedova's coach "had a beer before the match to relax."
Zvonareva and Vesnina had upset No. 1 seeded Serena and Venus Williams in the quarterfinals last week.
• The unseeded pair of Jurgen Melzer of Austria and Philipp Petzschner of Germany won the Wimbledon men's doubles title for their first Grand Slam championship.
They beat 16th-seeded Robert Lindstedt of Sweden and Romania's Horia Tecau 6-1, 7-5, 7-5 Saturday in the championship.
This is the first season Melzer and Petzschner have teamed up in doubles.
They are the first unseeded team to win the title since qualifiers Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie did it in 2005.
Tecau lost both of his service games in the opening set, and Lindstedt was then broken for the set. The second set went with serve until 6-5, when Tecau was broken at love.
Melzer and Petzschner broke Tecau at love at 6-5 in the third set to finish the match.
