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Watch: Herbert and Mahut Claim First Wimbledon Doubles Title

A first time all-French final in the Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Doubles final ended up with a winner used to making history at the All-England Club.

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Top seeds Pierre-Hughes Herbert and Nicolas Mahut of France earned their second career major title as a team with a straight sets win in Saturday’s final.

“We are good friends. We play together, so we stay together,” Mahut said about playing with Herber. “Even if sometimes we're going to lose some matches, we know at the end of the year, we are going to win more than we're going to lose. Sometimes doubles players, once they lose one, two, three matches, then they want to split. Because we like each other, we like to spend time together, we like to spend time on the court and off the court, this is something we don't even think about changing.”

The No. 1 seeds faced off against fellow Frenchmen Julian Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

It was the first all-French doubles final at Wimbledon in the Open Era.

Herbert and Mahut didn’t drop a set en route to clinching the 6-4, 7-6(1), 6-3 victory. Wimbledon is their second career major title having won the US Open last year.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut are #Wimbledon champions after beating Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin 6-4 7-6 6-3 pic.twitter.com/hROgnq478Q
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 9, 2016

The victory was especially sweet for Mahut having been best known in Wimbledon history for losing the longest tennis singles match ever played against John Isner in 2010.

“I said since I played tennis that Wimbledon is the greatest tournament,” Mahut said. “You know, when you win the match point in the final, you just realize that you're going to have your name written on the trophy and everywhere. Being the champions here in Wimbledon, it's a dream come through for me.”

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