Lucy Shuker & Dana Mathewson only lost one set en route to the title in Rome, Georgia.
Teaming up for their third straight event in 2022, Shuker & Mathewson dominated en route to the final, beating Juana Hurtado-Lopez & Maylee Phelps in their first round match 6-0, 6-0, before securing their spot in the final with a 6-1, 6-2 win over the Columbian/Japanese duo of Angelica Bernal & Shiori Funamizu.
The final saw the second seeds face top seeds Aniek Van Koot & Zhu Zhenzhen. The first set was a very tight affair, with the Brit/American pair securing the set in a tiebreak to take the lead. Van Koot & Zhenzhen regrouped in the second set and the Dutch/Chinese pair dominated levelling up the match with a 6-1 win in the second set. The final set was determined by a match tiebreak and Shuker and Mathewson were able to claim their second title of the year 7-6, 1-6, 10-7.
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