Austria’s Juergen Melzer and Germany’s Philipp Petzschner won the Wimbledon men’s doubles title with a straight sets victory over Sweden’s Robert Lindstedt and Romania’s Horia Tecau on Saturday.
The unseeded pair beat the 16th seeds 6-1, 7-5, 7-5 on Centre Court.
Melzer and Petzschner take home £240 000 between them, while the runners-up receive £120 000 to share.
It was the first time since 2005 that an unseeded pair had reached the Wimbledon final.
Both pairs had reached the Wimbledon final in their first season together, and all four players were looking for their first Grand Slam men’s doubles title.
Melzer and Petzschner first teamed up at Brisbane this year and have already won the Zagreb title. Wimbledon was their seventh tournament as a pair.
Petzschner was the first German to reach a Grand Slam men’s doubles final since David Prinosil at the Australian Open in 2001, and the first at Wimbledon since Michael Stich won it in 1992 — the only previous time that a German had won a men’s doubles Grand Slam title in the Open Era.
Melzer was only the second Austrian man in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam men’s doubles final, after his former doubles partner Julian Knowle.
In the Wimbledon singles, Melzer was knocked out by the top seed Roger Federer, while Petzschner took finalist and second seed Rafael Nadal to five sets.