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Williams sisters win third Wimbledon doubles title

WIMBLEDON, England — The Williams family collected a second Wimbledon championship Saturday.

Sisters Venus and Serena Williams defeated Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur 6-2, 6-2 in the women's doubles final.

The match began about 3 hours after Venus finished beating Serena 7-5, 6-4 in the women's singles title match.

As a doubles team, Venus and Serena improved to 7-0 in Grand Slam finals.

In the men's doubles championship match, the second-seeded team of Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic (2) of Serbia defeated No. 8 Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe, 7-6 (12), 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3.

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