Mate Pavic of Croatia and Brazilian veteran Bruno Soares won the US Open men’s doubles final in straight sets on Thursday.
The unseeded pair defeated eighth seeds Croatian Nikola Mektic and the Netherlands’ Wesley Koolhof 7-5, 6-3, in 1 hr 31 min inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.
It marked a third Grand Slam men’s doubles title for the 38-year-old Soares and a second at Flushing Meadows after his victory with Britain’s Jamie Murray in 2016.
For the 27-year-old Pavic, it is a second Grand Slam men’s doubles title after victory at the Australian Open in 2018.