PARIS (AP)—Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia have rallied to win the mixed doubles title at the French Open, defeating Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan and Julian Knowle of Austria 4-6, 7-6 (5), 11-9 tiebreak Thursday.
Srebotnik and Zimonjic faced match point in the final tiebreaker Thursday, then won the last three points.
Srebotnik teams with Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic to take on Serena and Venus Williams in the women’s doubles final Friday.
Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor of Canada play defending champions Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic and Leander Paes of India in the men’s doubles final Saturday.
Zimonjic and Srebotnik won the French Open mixed doubles in 2006 and were runners-up in 2007 and 2008. Srebotnik also won the title in 1999 with Piet Norval of South Africa.