Wimbledon 2016: Heather Watson into mixed doubles final with Henri Kontinen
Saturday 9 July 2016 17:29, UK
Britain's Heather Watson will play in Sunday's mixed doubles final at Wimbledon alongside Henri Kontinen of Finland.
The pair, who had never played a match together prior to this tournament, defeated fellow unseeded duo Oliver Marach of Austria and Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 in the semi-finals on Court One.
Watson will now hope to make it a British double when she and Kontinen follow Andy Murray onto Centre Court to take on Colombia's Robert Farah and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany.
Kontinen dropped serve in the opening game of the semi-final but he and Watson broke back for 4-4 and dominated the tie-break.
In the second set they forged ahead with a break of serve to lead 3-2 and did not look back, clinching victory on their second match point.
Watson is the first British player to feature in a Wimbledon mixed doubles final since Jamie Murray won the title in 2007 with Jelena Jankovic.
She said: "I'm very happy. I don't really know what to say. I'm having so much fun on the court with Henri and I thought we played really well today."
The 24-year-old added of the final: "It's best we treat it like all the other matches and go about it the same way because it's working."
