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Kubot winner in Australian Open doubles

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Polish tennis star Łukasz Kubot along with Swedish Robert Lindstedt defeated Erik Butorak from the US and South African Raven Klaasen 6:3; 6:3 and won the Australian Open doubles tournament. It's a first Grand Slam win for Polish tennis player since 1978 when Wojciech Fibak won the Australian Open doubles tournament with Australian Kim Warwick. Before that only Jadwiga Jędrzejowska managed to grab a win in Grand Slam. Back in 1939 she and French Simone Mathieu won the Roland Garros doubles championship. So far Poles have played 14 times in the Grand Slam finals, either in singles, doubles or mixed tournaments, winning only three of them. Half of those finals were played by Jędrzejowska.

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