Sun Tiantian and Nenad Zimonjic needed four match points
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Fifth seeds Sun Tiantian of China and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic beat India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza to win the Australian Open mixed doubles.
Sun and Zimonjic came through 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 on Rod Laver Arena to take the title for the first time.
Zimonjic had previously won the trophy with Elena Bovina in 2004, and also won the French Open mixed doubles title with Katarina Srebotnik in 2006.
"She was amazing, always smiling and very positive," Zimonjic said of Sun.
"It's been a fantastic two weeks and we hope to win more Grand Slam titles together."
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