2-trophy day for Serena Williams: She and Venus win doubles

Treat Huey’s ambitious bid of making into his first Grand Slam finals appearance was foiled Thursday night after he and Belarusian partner Max Mirnyi succumbed in the semifinals of the Wimbledon doubles.

The Williams sisters also won doubles titles at Wimbledon in 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009 and 2012.

Huey, however, remains optimistic the Grand Slam title could soon come his way based on how his partnership with Mirnyi has been working the past few tournaments.

The top seeds took their chance and broke with another timely return victor for 4-3.

The 12th-seeded Huey and Mirnyi suffered a heartbreaking 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 4-6 loss to veteran campaigners Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in the Final Four match that lasted for three hours.

Huey felt winning the Wimbledon men’s doubles crown was doable had they reached the final.

Mahut is forever associated with the longest match in tennis history, at Wimbledon in 2010 when he lost an 11-hour marathon to American John Isner, and was close to tears at the end. We lost a five-set match. Now, they are the proud winners of 7 ATP doubles crowns, including the US Open, Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, and now Wimbledon as well, all in some 10 last months! “But now it’s something different”.

It was the second Grand Slam title for the top-ranked pair after their triumph in the 2015 US Open.

They’re only the second pair of Frenchmen to earn the doubles trophy at the All England Club in the Open era, which began in 1968.

At the start of the men’s doubles final, Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut looked sharp from the off making Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin work for every point and every service game. To be fair Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin did not melt away but were blown away in the second set tiebreak taking just a solitary point.