Venus and Serena Williams defeated the hottest team of the year Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta 6-2, 7-5 to win Madrid Open title.

"We're really excited to win. We've worked really hard. Today we played a team that is doing really well, too," Serena Williams commented. "We just try to be the best and have fun, whether No.1 comes with that or not. Our goal right now is to do well at the French - we didn't do well there last year.

"Venus is in the singles final here too - she's playing really well."

Venus and Serena, who will rise from third place on the doubles rankings to No.2 - the highest they've ever been, now have 18 doubles titles as a team: 11 Grand Slam titles, two Olympic gold medals and five Sony Ericsson WTA Tour titles with an incredible 140-18 win-loss record together as a team.

Dulko and Pennetta had won 17 matches in a row (they won Miami, Stuttgart and Rome titles). It the longest doubles winning streak since Cara Black and Liezel Huber won 22 matches in a row at the beginning of 2007.


(source: Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

Williams sisters beat hottest doubles team Dulko/Pennetta to claim Madrid Open doubles title