Melbourne: Kristina Mladenovic of France and Ivan Dodig of Croatia have defeated Australian stars Jaimee Fourlis and Jason Kubler 6-3, 6-4 to mixed doubles crown at Melbourne Park on Friday. 

Mladenovic also won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open in 2014 with Daniel Nestor and has two women’s doubles titles in 2018 and 2020 in Australia among her five major women’s doubles titles.

Dodig has three other Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and two in men’s doubles, including last year’s Australian Open title with Filip Polášek.