Paris – Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany won the mixed doubles title at the French Open by defeating eighth-seeded Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Julia Goerges of Germany 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 on Thursday.
Rojer was playing his first Grand Slam final while Groenefeld won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon with Mark Knowles of the Bahamas in 2009.
“I gained a friend this week. I lost one, because I had to tell some other player that I’m not playing with her,” Rojer said. ”So I hope she understands, especially now. But I apologized like 18 times to her.”
Rojer and Groenefeld were teaming up for the first time.
“Actually, I was asking around,” Groenefeld said. ”No one wanted to play with me, and then he said yes.”
They saved three match points in the semifinal against Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan and Bruno Soares of Brazil on Wednesday…
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