The victory Friday was the 10th in a row for Stosur and Zhang. Their most recent loss was against Babos and Mladenovic at last year's US Open.

Stosur and Zhang overcame a slow start to wrest the Australian Open doubles crown from Babos and Mladenovic 6-3, 6-4, completing a dream fortnight for the unseeded pair.

Australia's Samantha Stosur and China's Shuai Zhang celebrate after winning the final against Hungary's Timea Babos and France's Kristina Mladenovic at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Friday. (Photo: VCG)

The unseeded pair of Stosur and Zhang won their first Grand Slam doubles title together, beating defending champions and No. 2-seed Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic 6-3, 6-4 in the final.